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newnations.comMonthly reports on finance, business, trade, economics, & political analysis NEWNATIONS BULLETIN 14 JANUARY 2010
THE STATE OF WORLD DEMOCRACY JANUARY 2010
Newnations presents Worldaudit’s comprehensive annual report on the state of world democracy at the beginning of January 2010 compiled by the same methodology, and reported every year since 1997).
All nations (150) with a minimum one million population are included.
In January 2010 just thirty six nations out of one hundred and fifty in the world, are fully democratic. A further thirty four nations are perceived as making varying degrees of progress towards democracy. Yet eighty nations are not in the democratic category at all and most of these are outside the rule of law.
Denmark has the highest ranking, with Sweden and New Zealand close behind.
The consistently successful countries over the 12 years of this audit, are the same - not necessarily in the same order: we give this years top rankings: 1st Denmark, 2nd Sweden, 3d New Zealand, 4th Finland, 5th Switzerland, 6th equal Norway & Netherlands.
World Audit’s First and Second divisions totalling 36 nations are unquestionably democratic. 23 of these are Europeans. These divisions include: Germany 11th, UK 13th, USA 15th, France 17th, Japan 29th, Italy 34th.
The Third division of 34 countries are we believe, ‘on the cusp’. They share an intention to be democratic and do achieve a qualified freedom, limited perhaps by the inefficiencies of sheer size. We include India 48th, Brazil 53d.
More than half of the world’s nations (80 of 150) in our Fourth division, are mostly not within the democratic process at all. This is a greater number than in any previous year. They include Pakistan (106), Saudi Arabia (108), China (121), Russia (134), Libya (146).
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