Changing Democracy Index in the World from 2006 to 2021The Economist Intelligence Unit's calculated democracy index has been declining quite rapidly around the world in recent years, but the decline has been particularly pronounced during the covid period: the global average democracy index in 2021 is 5.28 points, versus 5.44 in 2019. Compared to 2006, the decline is even more pronounced
Among all countries, Russia turned out to be one of the leaders in terms of the rate of decline of the index over the past 15 years: from 5.02 (the hybrid regime) to the current 3.24 (the authoritarian regime), a decline of about 1.5 times. Together with us our geopolitical "allies" Iran, Venezuela, Syria and some other countries, mainly in Southeast Asia and Africa, are among the leaders in the decline of democratization
By the way, most of Western countries also showed a fall of democracy index, though not so noticeable, and most of Asian countries - quite noticeable. One of the few regions of the world where democra
