According to the latest Democracy Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit, democracy did not go into decline in 2018 for the first time in three years. The index rates 167 countries by 60 indicators, including electoral processes and civil liberties. Just as populists with autocratic tendencies have won elections in recent years, so too has political participation shot up. But this year’s results may signal only a pause, not an end, to democracy’s retreat".
A welcome break: The retreat of global democracy stopped in 2018
Jan.8.– Democracy stopped declining in 2018, according to the latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index. The index rates 167 countries by 60 
indicators across five broad categories: electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties.
It is stricter than most similar indices: it concludes that just 4.5% of the world’s people live in a “full democracy”. However, the overall global score remained stable in 2018 for the first time in three years. Just 42 countries experienced a decline, compared with 89 in 2017. Encouragingly, 48 improved.
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a mechanism that facilitates divergent views and proposals.
región.Asimismo ha dado a conocer América Latina en Cifras, un documento adicional que realiza una radiografía cuantitativa de la situación demográfica, económica y social de los países latinoamericanos. FAES presentan también ambos textos esta semana durante la celebración de la Cumbre Iberoamericana en Guatemala.