Africa-Press – Cape verde. Cape Verdean democracy ranked third on the African continent and reached 35th position globally, according to the 2023 Democracy Index report organized by The Economist Intelligence Unit, released this Thursday.
According to the document , at an African level, Cape Verde is behind Mauritius and Botswana.
With a score of 7.65, the country occupies 35th place in the world ranking. The report highlights the electoral process and national pluralism with 9.17 points.
Within the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), Cape Verde is positioned just behind Portugal, being the second best ranked country in the index.
The report, organized by the Economist Intelligence Unit and which provides an annual portrait of the state of democracies in 165 countries and territories, also revealed that the number of countries with democracies (full or defective) rose from 72 to 74 in the last year.
However, the document shows that the average index fell from 5.29, in 2022, to 5.23, in 2023.
The data indicates that 45.4% of the world’s population lived in any type of democracy and only 7.8% of the population lived in a full democracy, compared to 8.9 percent in 2015.
This decrease in full democracy regimes is due, for the most part, to the fact that the United States has ceased to be a full democracy, and has started to be considered in the typology of “democracy with defects”, with the coming to power of the former President Donald Trump, in 2016.
According to the same source, in 2023, 39.4% of the world’s population lived under an authoritarian regime, a figure that has grown in recent years.
As for the more developed democracies, the report states that they are being faced with multiple political and social challenges, which suggests that this form of political regime, developed after the Second World War, may be showing signs of ineffectiveness and inability to adapt to the new order. world, governed by multilateralism.
In the global Democracy Index ranking, Norway leads, followed by New Zealand, Iceland, Sweden and Finland, comprising the top five places.
In last place, and in the segment of totalitarian regimes, is Afghanistan, preceding Myanmar, North Korea, Central African Republic and Syria.
The Democracy Index, which began to be prepared in 2006, portrays the situation of democracy in 2021, in 165 independent States and two territories, based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, government functioning, political participation, political culture and civil liberties.
Each country is classified into a type of regime: full democracy, imperfect democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime, and depending on the score recorded in a series of indicators.
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