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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Norway
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Finland
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Sweden
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Iceland
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Detailed explanation-1: -Norway topped The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Democracy Index report titled “Democracy in sickness and in health?", with Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Canada making up the top five.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Detailed Solution: The correct answer is Norway. The 2021 edition of the EIU’s Democracy Index was released on 10 February 2022.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.
