We 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 calendar year 2024. 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) | 32 (20.9%) | 40 (26.1%) | 46 (30.1%) | 19 (12.4%) | 16 (10.5%) | 153 (100%) |
| PTS_H (Human Rights Watch) | 7 (6.7%) | 21 (20.2%) | 37 (35.6%) | 26 (25.0%) | 13 (12.5%) | 104 (100%) |
| PTS_S (U.S. State Department) | 65 (32.8%) | 46 (23.2%) | 50 (25.3%) | 24 (12.1%) | 13 (6.6%) | 198 (100%) |
This year’s release includes:
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153 PTS scores based on the 2025 Amnesty International: The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2025.
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104 PTS scores based on the 2025 Human Rights Watch: World Report 2025: Events of 2024.
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198 PTS scores based on the 2025 U.S. State Department: 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
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PTS scores for the units of Israel, Israel in the Occupied Territories, and Palestine based on Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and State Department reports for 2023 and 2024.1
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Two new units: the African Union (PTS_H) and Niue (PTS_S).
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.
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More details about our decision to code two scores per report for Israel can be found in our post on territoriality issues: Boundaries, Borders, and Front Lines: Coding Territorially Ambiguous Units. ↩