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RTI Rating United States

United States is at the 74º position of the Global Right to Information Rating

The transparency law of United States has been in force since 1966 and with it has earned 83 points in the Global Right to Information Rating (RTI Rating). With that score United States is now ranked 74 in the transparency ranking formed by 136 countries, meaning it is among those that must improve its laws in order to guarantee access to information.

This index ranks countries giving them a score of 0-150 depending on the strength of its legal framework which guarantees the right to information.

In the next table you can also see the scores obtained by United States in each of the groups that make up the index. Access the list with the classification of all countries by clicking on RTI Rating and the economic information for United States by clicking on Economy of United States.


United States - Global Right to Information Rating
DateRTI RakingYear RTI lawAccessScopeRequestingExceptionsAppealsSanctionsPromotionRTI Rating
202274º1,96621816171441283
202172º1,96621816171441283
202072º1,96621816171441283
201972º1,96621816171441283
201869º1,96621816171441283
201757º1,96621816171441283
201655º1,96621816171441283
201446º1,96641819161441489
201342º1,96641819161441489
201241º1,96641819161441489
201137º1,96641819161441489
United States - Global Right to Information Rating
United States - Global Right to Information Rating
Reproduced with permission from the Global RTI Rating, a joint project of the Centre for Law and Democracy and Access Info Europe. The Global RTI Rating database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).