Previous Indexes
The Nanny State Index, edited by Dr Christopher Snowdon, is Europe’s first comprehensive league table ranking countries on the scale of paternalistic lifestyle regulation. Launched by EPICENTER almost a decade ago and updated biennially, it provides a data-driven snapshot of government overreach into personal choices across Europe. The Index highlights the growing trend of lifestyle restrictions and their implications for freedom, innovation, and consumer choice.
The 2023 Index
The 2021 Index
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Epicenter Nanny State Index, a biennial league table of the best and worst places in the Europe to eat, drink, smoke and vape. Since the last edition was published in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has led governments around the world to impose coercive controls on an almost unprecedented scale. As the world slowly returns to normal, it is crucial that all liberties are restored. [...]
The 2019 Index
Welcome to the 2019 Epicenter Nanny State Index, a league table of the best and worst places in the European Union to eat, drink, smoke and vape. The Index has been charting the slide towards coercive paternalism since 2016 and there is little good news to report this year. Once again, Finland tops the league table but although it maintains a strong lead, other countries are closing the gap. [...]
The 2017 Index
Welcome to the 2017 Epicenter Nanny State Index, a league table of the best and worst places in the European Union to eat, drink, smoke and vape. Since the first edition of this Index was published in March 2016, there have been many regulatory changes, most of them for the worse. Of the 28 countries included, all but six of them have a higher score than they did last year. [...]
