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Economic freedom means that individuals or companies are not subject to any restrictions when they are engaged in economic activities. In this study, countries within the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation were studied by accumulation analysis according to their economic freedoms. The study has taken advantage of the Heritage Foundation and the Economic Freedom Index report published annually by the Wall Street Journal. The data from the OECD countries, obtained from the Economic Freedom Index report, for the period 2018-2019, were used. Collective analysis is a multi-variable statistical analysis method used to classify units according to their similarities. In the study, the Ward method was used from hierarchical accumulation methods. The technique of k-mediates from non-hierarchical accumulation methods was later used.