A human rights group says the slowing world economy,

a crackdown on dissidents and dislike of foreigners fleeing their country

have led to a sharp drop in freedom around the world for the 10th consecutive year.

Freedom House, a U.S.-based human rights group, measured freedom in 195 countries.

Its Freedom in the World 2016 report shows a decline in 72 of those countries last year.

It was the largest decline since the 10-year-long drop began.

The report says 50 countries are “not free” and 59 “partly free.”

It says levels of freedom were lowest in Syria,

the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Somalia, North Korea, Uzbekistan and Eritrea.

Also on the list of least-free countries were Turkmenistan, Western Sahara,