V-Dem Electoral Democracy report 2023
March 12 , 2023
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- India ranks 108th in the Electoral Democracy Index of the V-dem Democracy report 2023.
- The country ranks way below countries such as Tanzania, Bolivia, Mexico, Singapore and Nigeria.
- India has also been named in the top 10 autocratizing countries in the last 10 years in the report.
- India's ranking dipped from the 100th position in 2022 to 108th this year in the report's Electoral Democracy Index (EDI).
- It was 97th in the Liberal Democracy Index (LDI).
- Pakistan slipped two steps lower at 106th in the LDI and 110th in the EDI.
- The US ranked 23 in the LDI while Canada and the UK occupied 24th and 20th spots, respectively.
- Denmark was ranked first with the highest comprehensive score in the LDI.
- Sweden and Norway occupy the second and third spot respectively.
- The report finds that inter-democracy world trade has declined to 47% in 2022 from 74% in 1998.
- 46% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product now comes from autocracies and democracies.
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