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The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, a UK-based private company which publishes the weekly newspaper The Economist. Akin to a Human Development Index but centrally concerned with political institutions and freedoms, the index attempts to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries and territories, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states.
The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories, measuring pluralism, civil liberties and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorises each country into one of four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes.
On the whole, with a fairly cursory view of the countries and their ratings, I'd probably roughly agree with a lot of it. I'd also agree with the overall interpretation of the lot; the world is becoming worse each year and the nutcases in power are becoming nuttier by the hour.
There's very, very few countries that are improving and those that are were already at or near the top of the list.
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