Argentina’s economic freedom score in the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom 43.8 out of 100, its lowest score ever placed it in 169th place of 178 countries measured.[1] Argentina also ranks near the bottom (27th) of the 29 countries in the South and Central America/Caribbean region. That is a stunning decline from its highest score of 74.7, which was recorded in the second edition of the Index in 1996.[2]