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2022

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the rank of India in the 2021 Democracy Index report?
A
46
B
42
C
32
D
52
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -India is ranked second in terms of population in the world with a whooping population of 1,369,178,904 which is 17.74% of world’s total.

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: -Ans : India has ranked 46 th in the global democracy index 2021 as per the economist intelligence unit. India has scored 6.75 to come 46th. Norway with the highest score of 9.75 has backed rank 1.

Detailed explanation-4: -India is part of a broader global trend of an anti-plural political party driving a country’s autocratisation. 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.

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