The world has been experiencing a global decline in democracy for the past 17 years, but the new “Freedom in the World” report suggests that the pace of that decline has slowed and we could be approaching a “turning point.”
While the report notes that the rise of authoritarianism and the erosion of democracy were still a continuing trend in 2022, there “were signs during the past year that the world’s long freedom recession may be bottoming out.”
The “Freedom in the World” report scores countries on the political and civil rights of their citizens and categorizes them as “free,” “partly free” or “not free.”
84 of the 195 countries reviewed are currently considered free, up from 44 of 148 nations in the first edition in 1973.
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