Kyrgyzstan ranked 60th in the world economic freedoms’ rating, Washington Profile reported referring to the Cato Institute research.

The research was conducted on five criteria: size of the government (number of members not involved into economic development of the country, government share in state economy, state investments rates); property rights protection; availability of monetary funds (inflation rates, control over foreign currency accounts); level of international trade freedom; level of business, labor and credit market regulation.

The highest level of economic freedom in the post-Soviet region was traced in Estonia (11th place), than goes Lithuania (31st place), than Georgia (39th place) and Kazakhstan (42nd place). Ukraine ranks the least among post-Soviet states taking the 121st place in a rating.