Update. Also see the 2026 Update to the Academic Freedom Index (#AFI).
https://academic-freedom-index.net/research/Academic_Freedom_Index_Update_2026.pdf

Extracts from University World News:
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260320155848399

"Academic freedom has declined more quickly in the United States than any other country in the past year…[Measuring academic freedom on a scale from 0 to 1, the worldwide average] between 2015 and 2025 fell 22%, from 0.49 to 0.38, a decline of 25%…One year into the second presidency of Donald J Trump, the United States registered a steep and unprecedented decline in its academic freedom score, dropping from 0.68 to 0.4. This decline…leaves the US’ level of academic freedom just below that of Mozambique (0.41) and just above Thailand (0.38), where the law of llèse-majesté, forbidding insult of the monarchy, is the strictest in the world."

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