2022
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98th
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85th
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93rd
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95th
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the research, India stood in the bottom 40% to 50% of countries on V-Dem’s Liberal Democracy Index (LDI). As per the research, polarization is on the rise in India and the country was ranked 93rd on the Liberal Democracy Index.
Detailed explanation-2: -India’s score on Civil Liberties was flat at 42 till 2018 but dropped sharply to 33 by 2022; that for Political Rights dropped from 35 to 33. Thus, India’s total score dropped to 66 which places India in the “partially free” category – the same status it had during the Emergency.
Detailed explanation-3: -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. In South Asia, India is ranked below Sri Lanka (88), Nepal (71), and Bhutan (65) and above Pakistan (117) in the LDI.
Detailed explanation-4: -What are the Main Findings of the Report? Top Performance: Sweden topped the LDI index, other Scandinavian countries such as Denmark and Norway, along with Costa Rica and New Zealand make up the top five in liberal democracy rankings.
Detailed explanation-5: -Democracy indices V-Dem publishes five core indices with several other supplementary indices. The core indices are the electoral democracy index, the liberal democracy index, the participatory democracy index, the Deliberative Democracy Index and the egalitarian democracy index.