Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the most election-heavy year in recent history, democracy has hit a record low around the world, according to a new study.

Conflict is rarely confined to the geographical space in which wars take place. The increasingly global effects – human, material and political – of wars and conflicts make a view of the level of ...

Morocco ranked first among Arab countries in the Visual Capitalist’s 2025 Democracy Index map based on the 2024 Democracy Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, placing it at the head of ...

Only about a quarter of Jewish respondents described Israeli democracy as “good” or “excellent,” continuing a downward trend in recent years, with ratings among Arab respondents even lower. The Israel ...

"In 2024, the same year democracy levels hit their lowest point since The Economist's Democracy Index was created in 2006, RSF noted that journalists’ work was increasingly obstructed by political ...

The Index exists to provide that clarity.” Unlike partisan commentary or reactive headlines, the Threat to Democracy Index offers a structured, nonpartisan approach to evaluating democratic ...

Israelis’ sense that democratic rule in the country is under threat is at an almost record high, while trust in its major institutions, including all three branches of government, is at record lows, ...

Pundits and scholars alike are concerned that democracy is eroding in the United States. These concerns are supported empirically. For example, according to V-DEM, the United States is close to losing ...

Norway, with a score of 9.87, tops the list. Norway’s functioning government and well-developed social system both contribute to the country’s strong democratic foundations, according to the ranking.

Since President Donald Trump’s first term, it’s become an accepted aphorism that democracy is in a state of “decline.”That’s not because of Trump’s ascension, the repeated displays of his strongman ...