Country Foundations

Academic freedom

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 26. Not present in the US Constitution.

Constitutions declaring it
72 / 158
US declares it
0%
US practices it
84%

Does declaring it change anything?

Distribution of practiced scores, split by whether the constitution declares the right. If the two distributions look alike, the words on the page are not doing much work on their own.

Constitutions that declare it (72)
0100
Constitutions that are silent (80)
0100

Mean practiced score: 60% where declared, versus 59% where silent.

What the text actually says

Passages tagged with this topic, from the Constitute Project.

South Africa

Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, which includes- academic freedom and freedom of scientific research.

Country by country

CountryDeclaredPracticed
Albania100%61%
Algeria100%42%
Argentina100%79%
Armenia100%66%
Belarus100%6%
Belgium100%88%
Brazil100%79%
Bulgaria100%82%
Burma/Myanmar100%12%
Cambodia100%38%
Cape Verde100%73%
Central African Republic100%83%
Chile100%94%
China100%9%
Colombia100%80%
Costa Rica100%83%
Croatia100%64%
Dominican Republic100%75%
Ecuador100%65%
Egypt100%22%
El Salvador100%50%
Eritrea100%17%
Estonia100%89%
Fiji100%71%
Finland100%90%
Greece100%63%
Guatemala100%52%
Haiti100%71%
Honduras100%78%
Hungary100%46%
Iraq100%52%
Italy100%70%
Japan100%78%
Kenya100%84%
Kosovo100%69%
Laos100%23%
Lebanon100%62%
Liberia100%73%
Libya100%31%
Lithuania100%70%
Malawi100%73%
Maldives100%62%
Mexico100%55%
Moldova100%69%
Montenegro100%73%
Morocco100%59%
Namibia100%76%
Nicaragua100%1%
North Macedonia100%63%
Panama100%78%
Paraguay100%73%
Peru100%66%
Philippines100%50%
Poland100%54%
Portugal100%83%
Romania100%70%
Russia100%14%
Rwanda100%27%
Sao Tome and Principe100%73%
Slovakia100%90%