Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the most election-heavy year in recent history, democracy has hit a record low around the world, according to a new study.

Democracy, as we have known it, is literally unravelling in many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump's "attacks on the press, academia, civil liberties, and dissenting voices" as reasons to downgrade the US ...

The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) issued its 2024 report on May 8, revealing important and interesting shifts in global perceptions about democracy, geopolitics and international relations. The ...

Joan Hoey, director of The Democracy Index at the Economist Intelligence Unit, discusses the latest findings of its report noting an increase of eight in the number of authoritarian regimes in the ...

To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic Detail page. LATIN AMERICA is the most democratic region of the developing world. But it has long been heading in the wrong direction.

We use three measures to better understand the status of democracy across the advanced economies included in our survey: 2021 Democracy Index scores from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 2022 ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...