‘Flawed’ U.S. Falls Down List of World’s Most Democratic Countries
A member of Taliban stands guard along a road in Kabul in September 2021.
Photographer: Blent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
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The percentage of the world’s population living under some sort of democracy tumbled last year to 45.7% from 49.4% a year earlier according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2021.
Of the 167 territories surveyed, just 21 were deemed to be full democracies, representing 6.4% of the world’s population, while 53 fell into the “flawed democracies” category.