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GLOBAL DEMOCRACY HAS A VERY BAD YEAR


THE PANDEMIC CAUSED AN UNPRECEDENTED ROLLBACK OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS IN 2020

Feb 2nd 2021
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GLOBAL DEMOCRACY continued its decline in 2020, according to the latest edition
of the Democracy Index from our sister company, The Economist Intelligence Unit.
The annual survey, which rates the state of democracy across 167 countries based
on five measures—electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government,
political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties—finds
that just 8.4% of the world’s population live in a full democracy while more
than a third live under authoritarian rule. The global score of 5.37 out of ten
is the lowest recorded since the index began in 2006.

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