Democracy Index 2020

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: fumll deocracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime and authoritarian regime.

In the recently released Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Democracy Index report 2020, Norway has taken the top spot, while Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Canada have made it to the top five. 

Out of 167 countries, the Democracy Index has classified 23 countries as full democracies, 52 as flawed democracies, 35 as hybrid regimes and 57 as authoritarian regimes.

In 2020 Democracy Index's global ranking, Sri Lanka is ranked (68). Among Sri Lanka's neighbours, India, at 53rd rank, has been classified as a flawed democracy, Bangladesh (76), Bhutan (84) and Pakistan (105) have been classified in the 'hybrid regime' category. Afghanistan has been ranked 139th and classified as an 'authoritarian regime' in the index. 

2020 Rankings:

Top 5 Country & Score

• 1 Norway 9.81
• 2 Iceland 9.37
• 3 Sweden 9.26
• 4 New Zealand 9.25
• 5 Canada 9.24

Bottom 5 Country & Score

• 163 Chad 1.55
• 164 Syria 1.43
• 165 Central African Republic 1.32
• 166 Dem. Republic of Congo 1.13
• 167 North Korea 1.08

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