2016: Status: Not Free, Aggregate Score: 14, Political Rights: 7, Civil Liberties: 6
Bahrain (Arabic: البحرين al-Baḥrayn), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn), is an Arab constitutional monarchy in the Persian Gulf. It is an island country consisting of a small archipelago centered around Bahrain Island, situated between the Qatar peninsula and the north eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the 25-kilometer King Fahd Causeway. Bahrain's population is 1,234,571 (c. 2010), including 666,172 non-nationals. It is 765.3 square kilometers in size, making it the third-smallest nation in Asia after the Maldives and Singapore.
Measures of Freedom
2016: Status: Not Free, Aggregate Score: 14, Political Rights: 7, Civil Liberties: 6
2019: 5.73, Rank: 143, Personal Freedom: 4.59, Economic Freedom: 7.33
2014: 7.60, Rank: 26
The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bahrain" as of 17 Sep 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.