Global Democracy Index

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Full democracies

  9.01–10

  8.01–9

Flawed democracies

  7.01–8

  6.01–7

Hybrid regimes

  5.01–6

  4.01–5

Authoritarian regimes

  3.01–4

  0–3

No data

  

The Global Democracy Index is an index complied and published annually by the Global Freedom Network, a Gjorkan based non profit that conducts research, analysis, and advocacy on democracy and human right across the globe. The Index measures the state of democracy in a country based on a variety of factors including civil liberties, political culture, and electoral process among others. Each nation is then categorized in one of four regime types: Full democracies, Flawed democracies, Hybrid regimes, and Authoritarian regimes based on their index score.

Methodology

The Index is based on a weighted average produced by expert analysis on a variety of factors impacting democracy in a country. Based on how experts score each country in each category, a score is produced to give a numerical answer for the state of democracy in the country at the time. The pool of experts the Global Freedom Network draws is reviewed carefully each year to determine fairness in the reporting.

The five general categories expert's score each country on are:

• electoral process and pluralism
• civil liberties
• functioning of government
• political participation
• political culture

The Index is widely cited in academic journals and peer-reviewed studies.

Definitions

Full democracies are nations where civil liberties and fundamental political freedoms are not only respected but also reinforced by a political culture conducive to the thriving of democratic principles. These nations have a valid system of governmental checks and balances, an independent judiciary whose decisions are enforced, governments that function adequately, and diverse and independent media. These nations have only limited problems in democratic functioning.

Flawed democracies are nations where elections are fair and free and basic civil liberties are honored but may have issues (e.g. media freedom infringement and minor suppression of political opposition and critics). These nations have significant faults in other democratic aspects, including underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance.

Hybrid regimes are nations with regular electoral frauds, preventing them from being fair and free democracies. These nations commonly have governments that apply pressure on political opposition, non-independent judiciaries, widespread corruption, harassment and pressure placed on the media, anemic rule of law, and more pronounced faults than flawed democracies in the realms of underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance.

Authoritarian regimes are nations where the electoral process is nonexistent or severely limited. These nations are often absolute monarchies or dictatorships, may have some conventional institutions of democracy but with meagre significance, infringements and abuses of civil liberties are commonplace, elections (if they take place) are not fair or free (including sham elections), the media is often state-owned or controlled by groups associated with the ruling regime, the judiciary is not independent, and censorship and suppression of governmental criticism are commonplace.

By regime type

Year 2022

Type of regime	Score	Countries		Proportion of World population (%)
		Number	(%)
Full democracies	9.01–10.00   8.01–9.00	9	?%	?%
Flawed democracies	7.01–8.00   6.01–7.00	6	?%	?%
Hybrid regimes	5.01–6.00   4.01–5.00	2	?%	?%
Authoritarian regimes	3.01–4.00   0–3.00	8	?%	?%

By region

Year 2022

Rank	Region	Countries	Authoritarian	Hybrid regime	Flawed democracy	Full democracy	Average score
1	Northern Ecros	12	0	0	4	6	8.42
2	Ostlandet	12	2	1	2	3	6.52
3	Southern Ecros	5	2	0	2	0	4.25
4	Sur	7	4	1	0	0	3.29

By country

Region	2022 rank	Country	Regime type	2022
Northern Ecros	1	Eleutherios	Full democracy	9.08
Northern Ecros	2	Kivu	Full democracy	8.92
Ostlandet	3	Baltanla	Full democracy	8.75
Northern Ecros	4	Dragonia	Full democracy	8.67
Northern Ecros	5	Tirol	Full democracy	8.50
Northern Ecros	6	Jackson	Full democracy	8.42
Northern Ecros	7	Svedonia	Full democracy	8.33
Ostlandet	8	Gjorka	Full democracy	8.17
Ostlandet	9	Paleocacher	Full democracy	8.08
Ostlandet	10	Uulgadzar	Flawed democracy	7.92
Northern Ecros	11	Reykanes	Flawed democracy	7.83
Southern Ecros	12	Bladium	Flawed democracy	7.83
Northern Ecros	13	Groffenord	Flawed democracy	7.58
Northern Ecros	14	Template:Country data Velabruck	Flawed democracy	7.50
Ostlandet	15	New Gandor	Flawed democracy	7.08
Ostlandet	16	Hazbin	Hybrid regime	5.92
Sur	17	Sequoyah	Hybrid regime	5.00
Ostlandet	18	Zloveshchiy	Authoritarian regime	3.75
Sur	19	El Salvador	Authoritarian regime	3.50
Sur	20	State of the Church	Authoritarian regime	3.00
Southern Ecros	21	Terranihil	Authoritarian regime	2.58
Ostlandet	22	Ajakanistan	Authoritarian regime	2.51
Southern Ecros	23	Pavulturilor	Authoritarian regime	2.33
Sur	24	Creeperopolis	Authoritarian regime	1.83
Sur	25	Rakeo	Authoritarian regime	0.58

Criticism

The Index is scrutinized heavily in Gjorka by the members of the Gjorkan right who argue the index is biased towards leftists. During the Presidencies of Joe Wallace and Roman Vanderburg, the Index's score for Gjorka went up, while during the presidencies of Joseph Marcos and Carter Morris went down. President Keaton Owens of the Global Freedom Network has defended these moves in the past citing Marcos's "dictatorial tendencies" and Morris's "lack of popular support" as the reasoning for the Index's change.

See also

• Armorial of sovereign states
• Capital punishment by country
• Global Democracy Index
• Languages of Terraconserva
• LGBT rights by country
• List of aircraft carriers
• List of country calling codes
• List of countries and dependencies by area
• List of countries by GDP (nominal)
• List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
• List of countries by intentional homicide rate
• List of countries by population
• List of countries by system of government
• List of countries by Human Development Index
• List of current heads of state and government
• List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
• List of designated terrorist organizations
• List of flags of sovereign states
• List of ongoing armed conflicts
• List of sovereign states