Economic Freedom Summary Index, Economic Freedom of the World, 25 Sep 2025
2023 overall score: 6.56, rank: 88
Territory in southeastern Europe, ruled since 2006 by the Republika Srbija
Serbia (Serbian: Србија, Srbija), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија, Republika Srbija), is a a country situated at the crossroads of central and southeastern Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The country borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro to the west and claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe, and its second-largest city Novi Sad is the European Capital of Culture for 2021.
Geographical type: Territory
Latitude: 44° N — Longitude: 21° E
Area: 88,361 km²
ISO 3166-2 code: RS
Measures of Freedom
Human Freedom Index [PDF], The Human Freedom Index 2023: A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom
2021: 7.14, Rank: 68, Personal freedom: 7.35, Economic freedom: 6.85
2021: 7.14, Rank: 68, Personal freedom: 7.35, Economic freedom: 6.85
Serbia: Country Profile, Freedom in the World, 2025
Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 56/100, Political Rights: 18/40, Civil Liberties: 38/60
Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 56/100, Political Rights: 18/40, Civil Liberties: 38/60
Serbia is a parliamentary republic that holds multiparty elections, but in recent years the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has steadily eroded political rights and civil liberties, putting legal and extralegal pressure on independent media, the political opposition, and civil society organizations.
Articles
NATO's Balkans Disaster and Wilsonian Warmongering, Part 2, by Doug Bandow, Freedom Daily, Aug 1999
Considers possible justifications for war vis-à-vis NATO's involvement in the conflict between Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and the Kosovo Liberation Army
Considers possible justifications for war vis-à-vis NATO's involvement in the conflict between Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and the Kosovo Liberation Army
Yugoslavia did nothing against America or any of its allies. ... [T]he [Clinton] administration ... wanted to force compliance with an international diktat to establish an unstable, jerryrigged autonomous government to be backed by a permanent foreign occupation of what is considered internationally to be indisputably Yugoslavian land ... The Serbian government has caused untoward civilian casualties in Kosovo, but its conduct does not exist in a vacuum. In June 1998, a U.S. diplomat in Belgrade told me: "If you're a Serb, hell yes the KLA is a terrorist organization."
The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Serbia" as of 4 Oct 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.