Annex A: Adoption of Access to Information Laws - 1766-2010

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Year Countries* Laws adopted in period

Cumulative Total

1766-1950 Sweden 1 1
1951-1960

Finland

1 2
1961-1970 United States 1 3
1971-1980 Denmark, Norway, France, Netherlands 4 7
1981-1990

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Colombia, Greece, Austria, Italy

7 14
1991-2000

Hungary, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Belgium, Belize, Iceland, Lithuania, South Korea, Ireland, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Israel, Latvia, Albania, Portugal, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Japan, Liechtenstein, Trinidad & Tobago, Bulgaria, Estonia, Moldova, Slovakia, South Africa, United Kingdom

29 43
2001-2010

Bosnia & Herzegovina, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Jamaica, Angola, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe, Armenia, Croatia, Kosovo*, Slovenia, Turkey, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Switzerland, Antigua & Barbuda, Azerbaijan, Germany, India, Montenegro, Taiwan, Uganda, Honduras, Macedonia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Nicaragua, China, Chile, Cook Islands, Uruguay, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Russia

41

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*Kosovo is the only non-UN Member country in this list; it is recognised by 65 UN Members, including 22 of 27 EU Countries and the United States.


 

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