Democracy Report 2024:
India has declined to become “one of the worst autocracies,” according to the ‘Democracy Report 2024’ by the V-Dem Institute.
- Report released by V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg
- India ranks 104 in LDI, slipped to 110 in the Electoral Democracy Index, 92 in the Liberal Component Index
- The report highlighted deteriorating components of democracy, such as freedom of expression, clean elections, media independence, and civil society participation
- 42 countries and about 3 billion people affected by increasing autocratization
- South and Central Asia second most autocratic region globally, Bhutan sole liberal democra
- Indices V-Dem LDI combines indicators from the Liberal Component Index (LCI) and Electoral Democracy Index (EDI)
- EDI Measures fairness of elections, freedom of expression, information, association, and suffrage
- LCI Emphasizes the protection of individual and minority rights against state oppression and majority rule
