Global State of Democracy Report 2021

Subject – Governance

Context – Authoritarianism is on the rise, says report

Concept –

Key findings of the report –

The number of countries moving towards authoritarianism in 2020 was higher than that of countries going towards democracy.
Democratically elected Governments are increasingly adopting authoritarian tactics.
Brazil and India were highlighted as “some of the most worrying examples of backsliding”.
India remained in the category of a mid-level performing democracy.
The pandemic has thus had a particularly damaging effect on non-democratic countries.
- In non-democratic regimes, the trend was deepening. The year 2020 was the worst on record, in terms of the number of countries affected by deepening autocratisation.