Based on the ‘Animal Rights Index‘, these are the twenty countries with the best animal rights laws and regulations along with their animal welfare rating scores:
- Luxembourg: 519.68
- United Kingdom: 506.36
- Austria: 501.73
- Czechia: 498.66
- Belgium: 488.86
- Croatia: 486.36
- Sweden: 478.10
- Netherlands: 470.43
- Bulgaria: 464.66
- Switzerland: 463.18
- Greece: 459.45
- Denmark: 458.98
- Romania: 458.00
- Germany: 456.86
- Poland: 454.39
- Estonia: 453.80
- Finland: 453.50
- New Zealand: 452.47
- France: 450.11
- Ireland: 449.97