Democracy Report 2024

Published on 22 Mar 2025

 The annual Democracy Report 2024 was released by the  V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg.

• The report classifies countries into four regime types based on their score in the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI): Liberal Democracy, Electoral Democracy, Electoral Autocracy, Closed Autocracy.
•  The LDI captures both liberal (individual and minority rights) and electoral aspects (free and fair elections) of a democracy based on 71 indicators.

Key Findings :

• In 2023, 42 countries (home to 35% of the world’s population) were undergoing autocratisation.
• India, with 18% of the world’s population, accounts for about half of the population living in autocratising countries..
• Democratization was taking place only in 18 countries, accounting for just 400 million people, or 5% of the world’s population.
• The sharpest decline in democracies occurred in Eastern Europe,  South Asia and Central Asia

Keywords:

Good governance Democracy liberal democratic index