Three at home four people in the world currently live in autocracies. But worse: 45% of countries around the world are in the process of self -cathomization.
The organization of data analysis on democracy variety of democracy (V-DEM) revealed that, for the first time in over 20 years, The world has less democracies (88) than autocracies (91).
However, if we focus on Full democracies: there are only 29.
If, on the one hand, 72% of the world’s population currently lives in autocracies (a new record since 1978); on the other, the full or liberal democracies now welcome Less than 12% of the world population (the lowest value of the last 50 years).
Of the five most populous countries in the world – China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the US – only the last one remains a democracy.
However, as journalist Ana França noted in the program on Monday, the study was completed in December 2024, when Donald Trump had already been elected, but he had not taken possession yet; Therefore, the results could have been different in this country.
Nevertheless, taking into account the new administration, the study’s authors dedicate a subtitle to some alarming signs in the US, such as “the dismissal of people for political reasons, the pressure under law firm who defend these people who have been faced or immigrants or activists… also forgiven the people who have invaded the capitol, which is one of the most serious things we have seen in recent times”.
Portugal is another year out of the list of liberal democracies, for which Jamaica and South Africa enteredin relation to the 2024 ranking, from which Butão, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Suriname came out, who moved to the list of electoral democracies – like Portugal.
For the list of electoral democracies highlighting Nigeria’s entry; What time is the reverse sense of Indonesian, Mongolia and Georgia who are today electoral autocracies.
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45% of countries worldwide are in the process of self -cathomization – that is, regimes that are reinforcing authoritarianism, which is 40% of the world’s population.
The study could also conclude that, over the years, the democracies are the one who most economic power loses.
