The
Democracy Index published by the
Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of
democracy across the world. This
quantitative and
comparative assessment is centrally concerned with democratic rights and democratic institutions. The methodology for assessing democracy used in this democracy index is according to
Economist Intelligence Unit which is part of the
Economist Group, a UK-based private company, which publishes the weekly newspaper
The Economist. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped into five categories, measuring
pluralism,
civil liberties, and
political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorizes each country into one of four regime types:
full democracies,
flawed democracies,
hybrid regimes, and
authoritarian regimes. The first Democracy Index report was published in 2006. Reports were published every two years until 2010 and annually thereafter. The index includes 167 countries and territories, of which 166 are
sovereign states and 164 are
UN member states. Other
democracy indices with similar assessments of the state of democracy include
V-Dem Democracy indices or
Bertelsmann Transformation Index.
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