Using his numbers, the worldwide correlation between the amount of effort HRW puts into countries versus the Freedom House score of the same countries is still a very weak 0.21. (One would expect that number to be well above 0.50.)
The most disproportionate attention is paid to the US (210/4), UK (33/2), Indonesia (88/5), Israel (39/3), Serbia, India, Croatia, Chile and Canada.
The countries with severe human rights issues that are all but ignored by HRW are Laos, Brunei, Oman, and Qatar, each with zero HRW reports. Countries with the worst Freedom House scores of 13 or 14 that had the least reports are Equatorial Guinea (2), Turkmenistan (4), Belarus (4), Eritea (5) and North Korea (6).
For your edification, here's the entire list I put together so you can have fun number-crunching as well (and perhaps coming up with a better formula than I did to rank them; perhaps separate lists for "not free" countries and "free" countries:)
Country | HRW Reports | Freedom House score | |
| Laos | 0 | 13 | |
| Brunei Darussala | 0 | 11 | |
| Oman | 0 | 11 | |
| Qatar | 0 | 11 | |
| Fiji | 0 | 10 | |
| Maldives | 0 | 7 | |
| Solomon Islands | 0 | 7 | |
| Tonga | 0 | 6 | |
| Antigua and Barb | 0 | 5 | |
| Montenegro | 0 | 5 | |
| Mongolia | 0 | 4 | |
| Samoa | 0 | 4 | |
| Trinidad and Toba | 0 | 4 | |
| Vanuatu | 0 | 4 | |
| Grenada | 0 | 3 | |
| Monaco | 0 | 3 | |
| Taiwan | 0 | 3 | |
| Andorra | 0 | 2 | |
| Bahamas | 0 | 2 | |
| Barbados | 0 | 2 | |
| Cyprus | 0 | 2 | |
| Finland | 0 | 2 | |
| Iceland | 0 | 2 | |
| Kiribati | 0 | 2 | |
| Liechtenstein | 0 | 2 | |
| Lithuania | 0 | 2 | |
| Malta | 0 | 2 | |
| Marshall Islands | 0 | 2 | |
| Nauru | 0 | 2 | |
| New Zealand | 0 | 2 | |
| Norway | 0 | 2 | |
| Palau | 0 | 2 | |
| Portugal | 0 | 2 | |
| Saint Kitts and Ne | 0 | 2 | |
| Saint Lucia | 0 | 2 | |
| Saint Vincent and | 0 | 2 | |
| San Marino | 0 | 2 | |
| Slovenia | 0 | 2 | |
| Tuvalu | 0 | 2 | |
| Uruguay | 0 | 2 | |
| Swaziland | 1 | 12 | |
| Congo (Brazzavill | 1 | 11 | |
| Gambia | 1 | 10 | |
| Madagascar | 1 | 10 | |
| Equatorial Guinea | 2 | 14 | |
| Moldova | 1 | 7 | |
| Djibouti | 2 | 11 | |
| Gabon | 2 | 11 | |
| Paraguay | 1 | 6 | |
| Seychelles | 1 | 6 | |
| Armenia | 2 | 10 | |
| Niger | 2 | 9 | |
| Guyana | 1 | 5 | |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 8 | |
| Guinea-Bissau | 2 | 8 | |
| Turkmenistan | 4 | 14 | |
| Belarus | 4 | 13 | |
| Central African Re | 3 | 10 | |
| Comoros | 2 | 7 | |
| Suriname | 1 | 4 | |
| Cameroon | 4 | 12 | |
| Singapore | 3 | 9 | |
| Eritrea | 5 | 14 | |
| Mauritania | 4 | 11 | |
| Lesotho | 2 | 6 | |
| Nicaragua | 3 | 8 | |
| North Korea | 6 | 14 | |
| Bahrain | 5 | 11 | |
| Bhutan | 4 | 9 | |
| Malawi | 3 | 7 | |
| Papua New Guine | 3 | 7 | |
| Belize | 1 | 3 | |
| Italy | 1 | 3 | |
| Latvia | 1 | 3 | |
| Panama | 1 | 3 | |
| Togo | 5 | 9 | |
| Mozambique | 4 | 7 | |
| Kazakhstan | 7 | 11 | |
| Kyrgyzstan | 7 | 11 | |
| United Arab Emira | 7 | 11 | |
| Honduras | 5 | 8 | |
| Botswana | 3 | 5 | |
| Mali | 3 | 5 | |
| Libya | 10 | 14 | |
| Bolivia | 4 | 6 | |
| Ecuador | 4 | 6 | |
| Azerbaijan | 10 | 11 | |
| Tanzania and Zan | 5 | 6 | |
| Jamaica | 4 | 5 | |
| Benin | 3 | 4 | |
| Namibia | 3 | 4 | |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 2 | |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 2 | |
| Denmark | 1 | 2 | |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2 | |
| Tunisia | 12 | 12 | |
| Guinea | 10 | 10 | |
| Venezuela | 9 | 9 | |
| Cuba | 12 | 11 | |
| Yemen | 12 | 11 | |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 15 | 13 | |
| Syria | 15 | 13 | |
| Kuwait | 10 | 9 | |
| Tajikistan | 13 | 11 | |
| Somalia | 17 | 14 | |
| Algeria | 14 | 11 | |
| Macedonia | 7 | 6 | |
| Jordan | 15 | 11 | |
| Zambia | 10 | 7 | |
| Vietnam | 19 | 12 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 21 | 13 | |
| Ukraine | 7 | 5 | |
| Albania | 9 | 6 | |
| Malaysia | 13 | 8 | |
| Morocco/Western | 15 | 9 | |
| Chad | 23 | 13 | |
| Burma | 25 | 14 | |
| Angola | 20 | 11 | |
| Cambodia | 20 | 11 | |
| Senegal | 10 | 6 | |
| Argentina | 6 | 4 | |
| Japan | 4 | 3 | |
| Austria | 2 | 2 | |
| Estonia | 2 | 2 | |
| Ireland | 2 | 2 | |
| Sweden | 2 | 2 | |
| Haiti | 18 | 9 | |
| Thailand | 18 | 9 | |
| Iran | 25 | 12 | |
| Bangladesh | 14 | 7 | |
| Dominican Republi | 7 | 4 | |
| Ethiopia | 26 | 12 | |
| Guatemala | 19 | 9 | |
| East Timor | 15 | 7 | |
| Uzbekistan | 33 | 14 | |
| Zimbabwe | 28 | 12 | |
| Lebanon | 18 | 8 | |
| Nepal | 18 | 8 | |
| Philippines | 13 | 6 | |
| Georgia | 19 | 8 | |
| Rwanda | 28 | 11 | |
| Sierra Leone | 14 | 6 | |
| Burundi | 27 | 10 | |
| Sri Lanka | 24 | 9 | |
| South Korea | 6 | 3 | |
| Netherlands | 3 | 2 | |
| Slovak Republic | 3 | 2 | |
| Peru | 13 | 5 | |
| Bulgaria | 10 | 4 | |
| Pakistan | 28 | 9 | |
| Ghana | 7 | 3 | |
| Liberia | 22 | 7 | |
| Romania | 11 | 4 | |
| El Salvador | 15 | 5 | |
| Uganda | 31 | 9 | |
| Democratic Repub | 43 | 12 | |
| Belgium | 4 | 2 | |
| Hungary | 4 | 2 | |
| Poland | 4 | 2 | |
| Sudan | 58 | 14 | |
| Egypt | 46 | 11 | |
| Brazil | 14 | 4 | |
| Kenya | 29 | 7 | |
| China and Tibet | 59 | 13 | |
| Colombia | 30 | 7 | |
| Czech Republic & | 5 | 2 | |
| Afghanistan | 56 | 12 | |
| Nigeria | 38 | 8 | |
| Greece | 11 | 3 | |
| Bosnia and Herze | 36 | 7 | |
| Germany | 6 | 2 | |
| Russia | 61 | 11 | |
| Iraq | 64 | 11 | |
| Mexico | 28 | 5 | |
| Australia | 7 | 2 | |
| France | 7 | 2 | |
| Turkey | 44 | 6 | |
| Spain | 9 | 2 | |
| South Africa | 29 | 4 | |
| Canada | 10 | 2 | |
| Chile | 10 | 2 | |
| Croatia | 21 | 3 | |
| India | 53 | 5 | |
| Serbia | 50 | 4 | |
| Israel | 39 | 3 | |
| Indonesia | 88 | 5 | |
| United Kingdom | 33 | 2 | |
| United States | 210 | 4 |