Autocracies now harbor 70% of the world population

[Nevilledog]

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The new V-Dem data show that #autocracies now harbor 70% of the world population. The level of #democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 is down to 1989 levels.
Dataset v12: https://bit.ly/3vBDkwr
Democracy Report 2022: https://bit.ly/3vrMyLM
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1:32 AM · Mar 3, 2022

https://v-dem.net/media/publications/dr_2022.pdf

DEMOCRACY WORLDWIDE IN 2021

• The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 is down to 1989 levels. The last 30 years of democratic advances are now eradicated.
• Dictatorships are on the rise and harbor 70% of the world population – 5.4 billion people.
• There are signals that the nature of autocratization is changing.

Back to 1989 Levels
• Liberal democracies peaked in 2012 with 42 countries and are now down to the lowest levels in over 25 years – 34 nations home to only 13% of the world population.
• The democratic decline is especially evident in Asia- Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dictatorships on the Rise
• The increasing number of closed autocracies – up from 25 to 30 countries with 26% of the world population – contributes to the changing nature of autocratization.
• Electoral autocracy remains the most common regime type and harbors 44% of the world’s population, or 3.4 billion people.

Ten Years Ago – A Different World

• A record of 35 countries suffered significant deteriorations in freedom of expression at the hands of governments – an increase from only 5 countries 10 years ago.

• A signal of toxic polarization, respect for counter- 5 arguments and associated aspects of the deliberative component of democracy got worse in more than 32 countries – another increase from only 5 nations in 2011.

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[Hekate]

1. That's depressing as hell

[Nevilledog]

2. Like a slap in the face

[ck4829]

3. Elon Musk wants to take us to Mars. Martian colonies will collapse and people will starve or

asphyxiate if you have a crackpot authoritarian making the decisions.

There's no outcome where you have a Putin or a Kim Jong Un and you have a viable colony.

Humanity is going to need sort out a whole lot of social problems first.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Democracy takes hard work

That natural order of thing throughout history hasn't been Democratic, it's been authoritarian. Authoritarians have weaponized information to dissuade people from fighting for Democracy, and it the case of the US to persuade people to fight against their own Democracy.