V-Dem’s Democracy Report 2022: India ranked 93rd

Highlights:

• The latest edition of Democracy Report was released recently by the V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg. 
• The study was titled ‘Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature?’.
• The report classifies countries into four regime types based on their score in the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI): Liberal Democracy, Electoral Democracy, Electoral Autocracy, and Closed Autocracy.
• It classifies India as an electoral autocracy ranking it 93rd on the LDI, out of 179 countries.
• India is one of the top ten ‘autocratisers’ in the world says the report.
• India is part of a broader global trend of an anti-plural political party driving a country’s Autocratisation.
• 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.