INDEX OF DEMOCRACY

The Economist has in a study examined the state of democracy in 167 countries and attempted to quantify this with an Economist Intelligence Unit Index of Democracy which focused on five general categories; free and fair election process, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation and political culture. EIU classifies the countries into four groups: „full democracies“, „flawed democracies“, „hybrid regimes“ and „authoritarian regimes“. Only 28 countries are considered to be fully democratic.

Serbia belongs to „flawed democracies“ and takes the 55^th place in the list.

http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/DEMOCRACY_TABLE_2007_v3.pdf

Full democracies

No.	Country	Index
1	Sweden	9.88
2	Iceland	9.71
3	The Netherlands	9.66
4	Norway	9.55
5	Denmark	9.52
6	Finland	9.25
7	Luxembourg	9.10
8	Australia	9.09
9	Canada	9.07
10	Switzerland	9.02
11/12	Ireland	9.01
11/12	New Zealand	9.01
13	Germany	8.82
14	Austria	8.69
15	Malta	8.39
16	Spain	8.34
17	USA	8.22
18	Czech Republic	8.17
19	Portugal	8.16
20/21	Belgium	8.15
20/21	Japan	8.15
22	Greece	8.13
23	United Kingdom	8.08
24	France	8.07
25/26	Mauritius	8.04
25/26	Costa Rica	8.04
27/28	Slovenia	7.96
27/28	Uruguay	7.96