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

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

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Top 5 LDI Countries:

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Denmark
Norway
Costa Rica
New Zealand

India’s performance:

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.
It has slipped further down in the Electoral Democracy Index, to 100, and even lower in the Deliberative Component Index, at 102.
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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Sumit Arora

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