The Dominican Republic Figure like the fifth economy with greater economic freedom of Latin Americaaccording to the Annual report of Economic freedom of the 2025 world, prepared by the Fraser Institute from Canada. The country reached a score of 7.37 out of 10, which places it in 47th place in the global ranking and within the second quartile of the index.
The study, which evaluates up to 165 jurisdictions From the world with data from 2023, consider 45 components grouped into five areas: government size, legal system and property rights, healthy money, freedom of international trade and regulation.
In the region, Costa Rica occupies the First place And 14 worldwide, with a 7.85 score. It is followed by Chile (26), Panama (27) and Guatemala (28). Behind Dominican Republic Peru (51) are located, Uruguay (53), El Salvador (58), Paraguay (60), Honduras (64) and Mexico (70).
Worst results
At the lower end of the Latin American table they appear Brazil (87), Nicaragua (92), Colombia (94), Ecuador (100) and Bolivia (116). Haiti (118), Argentina (158) and Venezuela (165) are located in the last quartile, with the last two as the worst positioned.
- Worldwide, Hong Kong leads with 8.55 pointsfollowed by Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States.
The report emphasizes that the average of the economic freedom in Latin America It is 6.6 pointsaffected above all by weaknesses in the rule of law and property rights, among others.
