## Colophon tags:: url:: https://www.economist.com/interactive/democracy-index-2024 %% title:: The global democracy index: how did countries perform in 2024? type:: [[clipped-note]] author:: [[@economist.com]] %% ## Notes > The global democracy index: how did countries perform in 2024? — [view in context](https://hyp.is/DNF8avSqEe-G7OtRJKf7IQ/www.economist.com/interactive/democracy-index-2024) ⬆️ date:: [[2025-02-27]] > The global average dropped to a new record low of 5.17, down from a high of 5.55 in 2015. Just 6.6% of the world’s population now lives in a full democracy, down from 12.5% ten years ago. And a large share of the world’s population—currently two in five people—lives under authoritarian rule. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/OCxXQPSqEe-cm-PBYXICFQ/www.economist.com/interactive/democracy-index-2024) ⬆️ 6.6% in full democracies, and 40% under authoritarian regimes. > Even Europe—home to nine of the top ten countries in the index—saw some notable declines. France was downgraded from a full democracy to a flawed one. This mostly reflects a deterioration in its confidence-in-government score after president Emmanuel Macron’s snap election in June failed to secure a legislative majority for any single party or bloc — [view in context](https://hyp.is/r_I_OPSqEe-XxX89nMt_UA/www.economist.com/interactive/democracy-index-2024)