NZ 4th best democracy
The EIU has released its 2018 Democracy Index.
It’s quite sobering. Only 5% of the world leave in a full democracy. A further 43% lived in flawed democracies. 17% in hybrid regimes and 36% in authoritarian regimes.
The average scores per region are:
- North America 8.56 (nc)
- Western Europe 8.35 (-0.03)
- Latin America & Caribbean 6.24 (-0.02)
- Asia & Australasia 5.67 (+0.04)
- Eastern Europe 5.42 (+0.02)
- Sub Saharan Africa 4.36 (+0.01)
- Middle East & North Africa 3.54 (nc)
The top 10 countries are:
- Norway 9.87
- Iceland 9.58
- Sweden 9.39
- NZ 9.26
- Denmark 9.22
- Canada 9.15
- Ireland 9.15
- Finland 9.14
- Australia 9.09
- Switzerland 9.03
Some other interesting ones:
- 20 Costa Rica 8.07
- 25 US 7.96
- 29 France 7.80
- 79 Fiji 5.85
- 110 Turkey 4.37
- 130 China 3.32
- 134 Venezuela 3.16
- 144 Russia 2.94
- 167 North Korea 1.08