According to the 2021 edition of the EIU’s Democracy Index, less than half (45.7%) of the world’s population now live in a democracy of some sort, which is a significant decline from 2020 (49.4%). Even fewer (6.4%) reside in a “full democracy”; this level is slightly down from 8.4% in 2020, after two countries (Chile and Spain) were downgraded to “flawed democracies”. Substantially more than a third of the world’s population (37.1%) live under authoritarian rule, a large share of which are in China.
The annual survey rates the democratic index in 167 countries according to the following, electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture, and civil liberties.
Armenia ranked 89th, which is two spots above neighboring Georgia (91st) and a whopping 52 spots above Azerbaijan(141st).
We registered an improvement of 0.14 points compared with 2020 to take its total score to 5.49 in 2021.
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