Aren’t you glad to live in a perfect Democracy?

Seriously? Are you totally sure? 

If you live in the USA or in France, you are told that your country is really democratic and told to feel fortunate about it, but not so fast. according to the 2021 Democracy Index from the Economist magazine, the annual survey, rating the state of democracy across 167 countries on the basis of the following five measures: 

• Electoral process and pluralism 
• Functional government 
• Political participation, 
• Democratic political culture
  
• Civil liberties. 

The survey also finds that more than a third of the world’s population live under authoritarian rule while just 6.4% enjoy a full democracy. The global score fell from 5.37 to a new low of 5.28 out of ten. 

 

If you think countries like France or the United States of America are paragon of democracy, think again. France ranks 20th while the USA has to be content with a 26th position. 

Norway is Number One, while Afghanistan is dead last. Look at the colored table and you’ll be able to surprise yourself. 

So if you live in Paris or in New York, you can see that we could do significantly better!