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Saturday’s failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump not only shocked the world, but also added a tragic chapter to a 2024 presidential race that was already marred in turmoil and controversy. First there was Trump’s conviction in the hush money case, which makes him the first convicted felon to run for president as a major party candidate. Then there was Biden’s debate debacle, which sent shockwaves through the Democratic Party, as large parts of the American public seem to have lost faith in the president’s ability to serve a second term. And now this, another eruption of political violence, three and a half years after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The events of the past few years are just the culmination of a trend that started long before: the increasing polarization of the political landscape.

Reinforced by social media echo chambers and politicians seemingly more bound to their own agenda than to the truth or the good of the country, the U.S. seems more divided than ever, making compromise – a key component of a working democracy – virtually impossible. All this hasn’t gone unnoticed outside the United States, where the country, once a role model for democracy, is viewed in an increasingly negative light. According to the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Survey, the U.S. has lost its status as the shining light of democracy with the majority of respondents from 34 countries saying that the U.S. democracy is no longer or has never been a good example for other countries to follow.

As our chart shows, respondents from France and Mexico were particularly critical of the U.S., as nearly 40 percent of respondents from both countries said that U.S. democracy has never been the shining example it's often made out to be. In most countries, the United States’ reputation as a democracy has suffered in recent years, with more than 60 percent of respondents from Germany, the UK, Canada or Japan saying that the U.S. used to be a good example but hasn’t been in recent years. This chart shows the perception of the United States as a role model for other democracies. Can I integrate infographics into my blog or website?

Large groups of people in Asian countries believe that the U.S. democracy used to be a good example for others to follow, but isn't anymore. Some also believe that it has never been a good example. Put together, this means that a majority in six out of nine Asian countries surveyed by Pew Research Center don't consider the U.S. a beacon of democracy (anymore). The exception are three countries from South Asia - India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - an interesting result given how the largest of them has recently attempted the balancing act of positioning itself as...

and Eastern powers like China and Russia. However, many people in the region refused the question, meaning that there is also not a majority considering the U.S. democracy a good example for the world. In traditional U.S. allies Japan and South Korea, the most people have changed their mind about U.S. democracy and the countries ended up ranking quite high in the overall ranking of both negative answer options combined.

They came in behind Singapore and Malaysia, however, where unfavorable opinions of U.S. democracy were most widespread. Former U.S. colony the Philippines also picked negative answers mostly, while in Thailand, opinion about democracy in the United States was somewhat better. This chart shows the share of Asian respondents who say U.S. democracy is not/no longer a good example for other countries to follow.

Can I integrate infographics into my blog or website? The rise of democracy has been one of the greatest collective human achievements of the last century, allowing large shares of the world's population to live in relative freedom and have the ability to... In recent years, this progress has come under threat though, with authoritarianism making an unwanted comeback. September 15 marks International Day of Democracy - a day dedicated to promoting the principles of democracy and celebrating civic participation. It also provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world at a time when "democracy and the rule of law are under assault from disinformation, division, and shrinking civic space,"... Our infographic, based on classifications from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project analyzed by Our World in Data highlights just how fragile democracy can be.

The share of the world population living in either an electoral or liberal democracy was at its highest in 2001, when the figure was at 53.5 percent. Over the past decade, there has been a sharp decline though, driven partly by a downgrade of India, which is now considered an electoral autocracy. Even excluding this effect, the population-weighted level of democracy would be back to 1990, V-Dem notes in its 2025 Democracy Report. By 2024, just 28 percent of the world's population, or 2.3 billion people, lived in electoral or liberal democracies, down from almost 4 billion people in 2016. This chart shows the share of people in the world who live in a democracy from 1900 to 2024. Can I integrate infographics into my blog or website?

The Economist Intelligence Unit has published the twelfth edition of its Democracy Index which rates democracy levels in 165 independent states and two territories. The research is based on criteria including civil liberties, the electoral process and pluralism, government functionality, political participation and political culture with the countries rated on a 0 to 10 scale. This year's index found that the average global democracy score has fallen from 5.37 in 2020 to 5.28 in 2021, the worst average score since the research was first conducted in 2006. Northern Europe leads the way for democracy with Norway recording the highest score, 9.75. Finland joined its neighbor in third place with a score of 9.27 but it was New Zealand that was placed second with 9.37. The United States only managed a score of 7.85 which left it in 26th position.

After the Western military pull-out and subsequent Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the country is firmly at the bottom of the index. With a score of just 0.32, even North Korea is above it, while Myanmar, also not without its share of issues comes second last with a score of 1.02. This chart shows countries with the best and worst 2021 Democracy Index scores. Can I integrate infographics into my blog or website? Yes, Statista allows the easy integration of many infographics on other websites. Simply copy the HTML code that is shown for the relevant statistic in order to integrate it.

Our standard is 660 pixels, but you can customize how the statistic is displayed to suit your site by setting the width and the display size. Please note that the code must be integrated into the HTML code (not only the text) for WordPress pages and other CMS sites. The projected winner of Indonesia's presidential elections held yesterday is Prabowo Subianto. He is the current defense minister of the third largest democracy in the world but has been criticized for his links to a non-democratic regime in Indonesia's past, the military dictatorship of Suharto, for... Subianto has been described as a strongman and a nationalist. He stands accused of human rights abuses, heightening concerns around the state of democratic institutions in the country which started under current president Joko Widodo.

As seen in data from the Economist Intelligence Unit and the UN Population Division, all of the three largest democracies on the planet are holding nationwide election this year - India in April and... Per the last release of the Economist's Democracy Index in early 2023, all three countries are described as flawed democracies, with Indonesia rated lower than the two others. Choosing popular current president Joko Widodo's son as a running mate might also have helped Subianto. Widodo himself has been accused of undermining democracy by allowing a law change that has enabled his 36-year-old son to run for the vice presidency despite his age. The ruling also involved a brother-in-law of Widodo, which cleared the decision as a judge on the country's Constitutional Court. Widodo also revived the death penalty for drug traffickers amid international criticism.

The largest full democracy in the world, according to EIU, is Japan at around 123 million inhabitants. The largest full democracy probably going to the polls in the super election year of 2024 is the United Kingdom with its around 68 million people. A general election is happening there in January 2025 at the latest, but likely in October. More countries rated as full democracies among the world's biggest 15 are Germany, France, South Korea and Spain. More elections are coming up in South Africa (60.7 million inhabitants) and again, South Korea (51.8 million inhabitants) in April. The country is the world's 14th biggest democracy but only the globe's 29th biggest nation overall, showing how non-democratic countries and hybrid regimes make up slightly more than half of nations.

This chart shows the estimated population of the world biggest democracies in 2024 (in million people). Today marks Independence Day in the U.S. and 246 years of autonomy from British rule. But more than two centuries after the Declaration of Independence was signed, what does the state of democracy and freedom look like in the country now? According to data compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, and further illustrated by Gregology, the United States is becoming less democratic. As our chart shows, the Democracy Index continued to decline into 2021, with data on political culture and the functioning of government in the U.S.

reflecting a similar downward trajectory up until 2020, when data for these indicators was last collected. Charted over the course of the past 30 years, this chart tracks both Democratic and Republican leadership. The index for electoral process and pluralism rose following the Bush years, and has been on a steady trend ever since. While civil liberties declined under Obama mid-2014, they have risen once more. Political participation saw a rise over Trump’s presidency. The Democracy Index resembles the Human Development Index, apart from the fact it chiefly considers political institutions and freedoms.

The index measures the state of democracy in 167 countries and territories and is based on 60 indicators, grouped into five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation, and... The ‘Democratic Index’ is the average of the five indicators. The lower the score, the less democratic the country. This chart shows the democracy indexes in the U.S. as defined by the Economist Intelligence Unit, between 2006-2020. Across the globe, the spread of right-wing populism and authoritarian politics have shaken the very foundations of democracy.

A new survey from Pew Research has found that publics across the globe are generally unhappy with the functionality of their political systems, though levels of satisfaction with democracy vary hugely between countries. As can be seen from the following infographic which shows a selection of countries from the survey, people in India have tremendous faith in democracy. 79 percent of those polled said they are satisfied with the way democracy is working in India compared to 11 percent who are dissatisfied. Germany also recorded a high level (73 percent) of satisfaction with democracy. In many other developed countries, however, faith is waning. In the United Kingdom and Japan, 47 percent of people are not satisfied with how democracy is working in their countries while in the U.S., that rises to 51 percent.

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