CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Overall, India’s score on index stands at 66 in 2022, down from 77 in 20185. The decline has been on account of the category Civil Liberties which declined from 42 in 2018 to 33 in 2022. The score on Political Rights also declined slightly from 35 in 2018 to 33 in 2022 (Figure 2).

Detailed explanation-2: -It was ranked 93rd in the LDI, India figures in the “bottom 50%” of countries. It has slipped further down in the Electoral Democracy Index, to 100, and even lower in the Deliberative Component Index, at 102.

Detailed explanation-3: -Uruguay increased its score from 8.61 to 8.85 out of 10 and ranked first in Latin America, ahead of Costa Rica and Chile. With this evaluation, the country is qualified as a “full democracy", a situation experienced by only 6.4% of the world’s population, according to the report.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, a UK-based private company which publishes the weekly newspaper The Economist.