We have released the PTS Scores based on the most recent human rights reports from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department. The newly released scores cover human rights conditions in countries and territories for the year 2023. A a visual of temporal trends of the average PTS-scores is shown in Figure 1. Table 1 reports the breakdowns of reports by the level of political terror (PTS-score).
| Scale | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 5 | Reports |
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| PTS_A (Amnesty International) | 30 (19.5%) | 43 (27.9%) | 46 (29.9%) | 18 (11.7%) | 17 (11.0%) | 154 (100%) |
| PTS_H (Human Rights Watch) | 11 (10.5%) | 18 (17.1%) | 35 (33.3%) | 26 (24.8%) | 15 (14.3%) | 105 (100%) |
| PTS_S (U.S. State Department) | 63 (32.5%) | 41 (21.1%) | 53 (27.3%) | 23 (11.9%) | 14 (7.2%) | 194 (100%) |
This year’s release includes:
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154 PTS scores based on the 2024 Amnesty International: The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2024.
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105 PTS scores based on the 2024 Human Rights Watch: World Report 2024: Events of 2023.
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194 PTS scores based on the 2024 U.S. State Department: 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
All data, as well as the latest version of the codebook PTS-Codebook can be accessed here: Download
Last year’s version as well as older data releases of the PTS will still be available in various formats (i.e., .xlsx, .dta, .RData, and .csv) in our Data-Archive
The Data Table on the website and the PTS-App have been updated and also contain the latest scores.