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Democracy Index 2019
January 11 , 2019
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- The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released the Democracy Index which ranks 167 countries by 60 indicators across five broad categories.
- The index classifies each country either as a full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian.
- India was at the 41st place with a score of 7.23/10 and was placed in the flawed democracies category.
- Australia and New Zealand are the only “full democracies” in the entire Asia-Pacific region.
- Some key findings of the democracy index are,
- Only 4.5% of the world’s people live in a full democracy.
- The overall global score remained stable in 2018 for the first time in three years.
- 42 countries experienced a decline in their index score compared with 89 in 2017 and 48 countries have improved their score.
- Political participation is the most improved category in the index.
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