New Delhi: According to Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), which produces the largest global dataset on democracy, India remains an “electoral autocracy”, a zone it entered in 2017.
It exhibited a decline in the Liberal Democracy Index as per the latest findings of the Democracy Report 2025, ranking globally at 100 of 179 countries.
On the Egalitarian Component Index, it stood far lower at 134. On the Electoral Democracy Index, it fell to 105.
All indices for India, which together comprise autocratising/democratising tendencies, exhibited a decline in rank, except the Egalitarian Component and Participation Component Indices.
India figures in the bottom 40-50% of all countries evaluated.
Autocratising Hungary is also five ranks better than India in the Liberal Democracy Index, and the Philippines is just above its rank.
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