Data is Plural: “The CIRIGHTS project aims “to create numerical measures for every internationally recognized human right for all countries of the world.” The team has developed a detailed guide to scoring each government’s record on dozens of such rights, such as freedom of religion, women’s political rights, freedom from extrajudicial killings, the right to a fair trial, and “reasonable limits” on working hours. For each year from 1981 to 2021, the project’s scorers have rated each country on each right, generally on a three-point scale, based on information in the US State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Amnesty International’s annual reports, and similar sources. The resulting dataset includes those scores, as well as several summary metrics.”