Country Foundations

Freedom of movement

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 13. Not present in the US Constitution.

Constitutions declaring it
141 / 158
US declares it
0%
US practices it
90%

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 (141)
0100
Constitutions that are silent (14)
0100

Mean practiced score: 78% where declared, versus 82% where silent.

What the text actually says

Passages tagged with this topic, from the Constitute Project.

South Africa
21. Freedom of movement and residence

21. Freedom of movement and residence Everyone has the right to freedom of movement. Everyone has the right to leave the Republic. Every citizen has the right to enter, to remain in and to reside anywhere in, the Republic. Every citizen has the right to a passport.

Country by country

CountryDeclaredPracticed
Afghanistan100%38%
Albania100%96%
Algeria100%70%
Angola100%78%
Argentina100%94%
Armenia100%92%
Azerbaijan100%72%
Bahrain100%66%
Bangladesh100%78%
Barbados100%92%
Belarus100%82%
Benin100%94%
Bhutan100%76%
Bolivia100%91%
Bosnia and Herzegovina100%77%
Botswana100%80%
Brazil100%85%
Bulgaria100%90%
Cambodia100%69%
Cameroon100%81%
Canada100%82%
Cape Verde100%85%
Central African Republic100%62%
Chad100%63%
Chile100%94%
Colombia100%77%
Comoros100%74%
Costa Rica100%87%
Croatia100%93%
Cuba100%57%
Cyprus100%86%
Democratic Republic of the Congo100%67%
Djibouti100%67%
Dominican Republic100%83%
Ecuador100%81%
Egypt100%70%
El Salvador100%64%
Equatorial Guinea100%53%
Eritrea100%27%
Estonia100%94%
Eswatini100%70%
Ethiopia100%62%
Fiji100%78%
Finland100%96%
Gabon100%84%
Georgia100%91%
Ghana100%95%
Greece100%91%
Guatemala100%79%
Guinea100%56%
Guyana100%86%
Honduras100%83%
Hungary100%94%
Iceland100%97%
India100%75%
Indonesia100%78%
Iraq100%65%
Israel100%76%
Italy100%96%
Ivory Coast100%76%