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Global Democracy Now at 1986 Level Says V-Dem [1]

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Date: 2023-03-10

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), the most authoritative democracy index in the West, just published their 2022 report. You can find the other major democracy indexes, Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit, in my previous diary.

From V-Dem’s Executive Summary:

Democracy in the World 2022

• Advances in global levels of democracy made over the last 35 years have been wiped out.

• 72% of the world’s population – 5.7 billion people – live in autocracies by 2022.

Global Level is Back to 1986

• The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2022 is down to 1986 levels.

• The decline is most dramatic in the Asia-Pacific region, which is back to levels last recorded in1978.

• Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, are back to levels last seen around the end of the Cold War.

More Dictatorships than Liberal Democracies

• The world has more closed autocracies than liberal democracies – for the first time in more than two decades.

• 28% of the population – 2.2billion people – live in closed autocracies.

• 13% of the population – 1billion people – live in liberal democracies.

Drastic Changes in Last Ten Years

• Freedom of Expression is deteriorating in 35 countries in 2022 – ten years ago it was only7.

• Government censorship of the media is worsening in 47 countries.

• Government repression of civil society organizations is worsening in 37 countries.

• Quality of elections is worsening in 30 countries.

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