Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) published it 4th democracy index report for the year 2011 (as of beginning of December). This index gives a brief picture of the world wide democracy including 165 independent states, 2 territories and covering almost all of the world’s population and independent states excluding micro states. Ranking is done on basis of Overall Democracy Index which is based on 5 categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. Four different regimes: full democracies; flawed democracies; hybrid regimes; and authoritarian regimes are used for placing countries. For democracy fair and free elections and civil liberties are essential requirements of democracy. It reveals that almost one-half of the population of the world lives in some sort of democracy, although 11% only reside in full democracies. More than one-third of the world’s population, some 2.6bn people, still lives in the authoritarian rule (with a large share being in China).
According to this index, world’s top 10 democratic countries are as follows with their measurement scoring in correspondence to EIU:
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