New Zealand and Norway deny top positions in most democracies in the world | Iceland | Finland | Sweden | We go

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Division of Research and Analysis EconomistCreated its annual report, the “Code of Democracy,” which reveals which countries in the world are the most democratic.

It is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, political culture and civil rights. In addition, each country is classified into one of four types of rule: “full democracy”, “defective democracy”, “hybrid rule” or “dictatorial rule”.

1. Norway

Also known as the Kingdom of Norway, its form of government is parliamentary democratic monarchy, which won first place. The Nordic country scored 9.75 out of 10, a slightly lower score than the previous year (9.81). That 9.75 is the global average of their scores on electoral process and pluralism (10), government function (9.64), political participation (10), political culture (10), and civil rights (9.12).

2. New Zealand

The country rose from fourth to second place and became the most democratic country in the Asia-Australia region. New Zealand scored 9.37 points. He was 9.25 last year.

3. Finland

The European country, which borders Sweden, Norway and Russia, rose to sixth place from 9.27 (compared to 9.20 in the previous edition). Finland has the highest score so far.

4. Sweden

Scandinavian country had the same score as the previous year, but dropped one place and is now in fourth place. Sweden is one of the first democracies and the third largest in Europe (after Norway and Finland).

5. Iceland

He was pushed from second to fifth. The reason is the activities of the government (received a score of 8.21 compared to the previous 8.57) and the political culture (which decreases from 10 to 9.38). It maintains 10 points on electoral process and pluralism, 8.89 points on political participation and 9.41 points on civil rights.

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