Strong link between women's and private civil liberties across countries.
Comparing Private Civil Liberties Index with Women's Civil Liberties Index across 173 countries, 1948–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.93
- Holding size constant
- +0.92
- Countries compared
- 173
- Period
- 1948–2025
What might link these
Countries with higher levels of civil liberties for women tend to also have higher levels of private civil liberties. This suggests that broader societal attitudes towards freedom and individual rights may influence both indicators.
Why this is not proof of anything
This is a correlation across countries, not an experiment. It cannot show that either indicator causes the other, and both may simply follow a third thing. While the partial correlation accounts for population and GDP, other societal or cultural factors could be driving this strong association.
The second figure above repeats the measurement with national population and income held constant. It is the more conservative number: a relationship that largely disappears there was mostly telling you that larger, richer countries have more of most things.
How this was measured
Both indicators were ranked across every country reporting each, and the two rankings compared — ranks rather than raw values, because a handful of very large countries can otherwise manufacture a relationship on their own. The calculation is arithmetic over figures already published on this site; the commentary above is drafted from the two indicator names and the resulting coefficients.