While the history books are still being written, 2024 was an incredibly pivotal year in world events. More than two billion people voted in elections in over 60 countries, setting an historical record ...

Global patterns show that democracy around the world continued to weaken last year, according to a new report. The Global State of Democracy 2025, published by the Stockholm-based International ...

Global stocks continue to fall, and fears of a recession are growing, after Donald Trump rejected calls to scale back his order to institute sweeping tariffs on most of the world. The move will be ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

New Delhi: India ranks among the countries with the highest levels of satisfaction with democracy, with 74 percent of Indians surveyed approving of it, while Japan recorded the lowest satisfaction ...

The Democracy Index offers a comparative snapshot of how democratic systems function across the world. Compiled annually by ...