North Korea has been again ranked the least economically free country in the world, the conservative Heritage Foundation declared on Tuesday.

In the report, simultaneously released by the think-tank and Wall Street Journal, North Korea ranked 178 out of 178 countries, with a score of just 1.0, behind Cuba, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

Bryan Riley, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, told NK News that while there were internal concerns that there was not sufficient data to effectively rank North Korea, as was the case with Syria, Libya and Somalia, “We feel that we have enough to, at least,