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14/03/22 07:49 AM IST

V-Dem’s Democracy Report 2022: India ranked 93rd

In News 

  • The latest edition of Democracy Report was released recently by the V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg.

Details
  • The study was titled ‘Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature?’.
  • The report classifies countries into four regime types based on their score in the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI): Liberal Democracy, Electoral Democracy, Electoral Autocracy, and Closed Autocracy.
  • Top 5 LDI Countries:
    1. Sweden
    2. Denmark
    3. Norway
    4. Costa Rica
    5. New Zealand
Findings about India 

  • It classifies India as an electoral autocracy ranking it 93rd on the LDI, out of 179 countries.
  • India is one of the top ten ‘autocratisers’ in the world says the report.
  • India is part of a broader global trend of an anti-plural political party driving a country’s Autocratisation.
  • Ranked 93rd in the LDI, India figures in the “bottom 50%” of countries.
  • In South Asia, India is ranked below Sri Lanka (88), Nepal (71), and Bhutan (65) and above Pakistan (117) in the LDI.

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