Why India's ranking fell on the democracy index.
| | | | | | | India dropped ten places to the 51st spot in the The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019 Democracy Index released on Wednesday, mainly because of “an erosion of civil liberties in the country”.
The report, titled ‘A year of democratic setbacks and popular protest’, looks at the state of democracy across 165 countries and two territories.
In the 2019 index the average global score for democracy fell from 5.48 in 2018 to 5.44, the research group said, “this is the worst average global score since the index was first produced in 2006”.India’s overall score fell from 7.23 in 2018 to 6.90 in 2019. Here are the reasons mentioned in the report for the regression in India: |
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