Democracy Improvement Gain/Loss
		Total	Total
		Score	Score	Rank Change
Rank 2010-2011		2007-2008	2010-2011	2007-2011
1	Norway	87.3	88.5	0
2	Sweden	87.3	86.9	0
3	Finland	85.8	86.3	0
4	Switzerland	84.5	85.4	0
5	Denmark	83.8	84.1	0
6	Netherlands	82.7	83.0	0
7	New Zealand	82.6	82.7	0
8	Germany	80.3	81.6	+1
9	Ireland	80.8	81.0	-1
10	Austria	79.7	80.6	+1
11	Canada	79.1	80.0	+1
12	Belgium	78.0	80.0	+3
13	United Kingdom	80.1	79.7	-3
14	Australia	78.9	79.6	-1
15	United States	78.3	78.5	-1
16	Spain	77.6	77.1	0
17	France	77.3	76.3	0
18	Portugal	75.4	75.6	0
19	Slovenia	74.8	75.0	0
20	Japan	73.9	74.8	+1
21	Israel	74.3	73.9	-1
22	Uruguay	71.5	72.3	+2
23	Cyprus	71.4	71.8	+2
24	Chile	70.8	71.6	+4
25	Estonia	72.5	71.6	-3
26	Costa Rica	69.8	71.1	+6
27	Czech Republic	71.4	71.0	-1
28	Korea, Rep.	69.5	70.9	+5
29	Italy	72.4	70.7	-6
30	Poland	69.2	70.5	+4
31	Lithuania	71.4	70.2	-4
32	Greece	70.2	68.5	-2
33	Latvia	70.6	68.4	-4
34	Slovak Republic	68.7	68.0	+1
35	Croatia	67.0	67.7	+1
36	Hungary	70.1	67.6	-5
37	Mauritius	64.6	65.7	0
38	Panama	63.7	65.1	+1
39	Singapore	62.8	64.9	+2
40	Argentina	63.3	64.0	0
41	Bulgaria	64.2	63.5	-3
42	Romania	62.4	63.4	0
43	Brazil	60.4	62.3	+1
44	Peru	61.1	61.0	-1
45	Serbia	59.6	60.8	+1
46	Trinidad and Tobago	59.6	60.1	+1
47	Jamaica	60.2	59.9	-2
48	El Salvador	58.4	59.0	+1
49	Mongolia	56.5	58.3	+3
50	Dominican Republic	58.7	57.6	-2
51	Ghana	55.9	57.5	+4
52	Ecuador	57.8	57.2	-1
53	Moldova	53.4	56.7	+8
54	Mexico	57.9	56.6	-4
55	Albania	56.0	56.5	-1
56	Colombia	55.5	56.0	0
57	Philippines	53.9	55.8	+1
58	Georgia	52.1	54.8	+9
59	Macedonia, FYR	52.6	54.6	+5
60	Bolivia	53.4	54.5	0
61	Ukraine	56.0	54.3	-8
62	Botswana	54.7	54.0	-5
63	Paraguay	52.4	53.7	+3
64	Nicaragua	53.1	53.6	-1
65	Turkey	53.4	53.4	-3
66	South Africa	53.8	53.3	-7
67	Namibia	52.5	53.2	-2
68	Indonesia	50.8	52.7	+2
69	Thailand	49.7	51.6	+4
70	Malaysia	50.6	51.5	+1
71	Kuwait	50.0	50.2	+1
72	India	48.7	50.1	+5
73	Guatemala	48.8	49.9	+3
74	Honduras	52.0	49.8	-6
75	Sri Lanka	51.5	49.8	-6
76	Lesotho	48.9	49.4	-2
77	Senegal	48.6	49.2	+1
78	Bangladesh	42.6	48.8	+12
79	Tanzania	45.6	48.7	+3
80	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48.3	48.5	-1
81	Lebanon	46.8	48.3	-1
82	Venezuela, RB	48.9	48.2	-7
83	Benin	45.5	47.6	+1
84	Timor-Leste	46.2	47.3	-3
85	Tunisia	37.8	45.8	+9
86	Kyrgyz Republic	45.5	45.7	-3
87	Nepal	44.4	45.0	-1
88	Russian Federation	44.5	44.5	-3
89	Armenia	43.9	44.2	-2
90	Morocco	42.9	43.0	-1
91	Kenya	40.0	42.7	+1
92	Mozambique	41.4	41.8	-1
93	Zambia	37.4	41.0	+2
94	Bahrain	43.2	40.6	-6
95	Haiti	38.1	39.7	-2
96	Nigeria	36.3	37.4	0
97	Egypt, Arab Rep.	34.8	37.1	+2
98	Pakistan	33.5	37.1	+2
99	China	36.2	36.9	-1
100	Guinea-Bissau	36.3	35.1	-3
101	Togo	31.9	34.6	0
102	Libya	25.5	29.6	+2
103	Syrian Arab Republic	30.1	29.5	-1
104	Yemen, Rep.	25.7	25.9	-1
	Green: Country is among the 10 best	Green: Within the highest third of all countries	Green: Within the highest third of all countries	Green: Country has gained in rank since the previous period
		Blue: Within the medium third of all countries	Blue: Within the medium third of all countries	White: Country's rank has remained stable over the two periods
	Red: Country is among the 10 worst	Red: Within the lowest third of all countries	Red: Within the lowest third of all countries	Red: Country has lost in rank since the previous period
	Grey: "Virtual scores" for countries,
	categorized by Freedom Hous as
	"not free" in the years 2010 and 2011.
	Tunisia is categorized by Freedom
	House as "partly free" in 2011.
	David F. J. Campbell
	University of Klagenfurt
	Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (iff)
	Institute of Science Communication and Higher Education Research (WIHO)
	david.campbell@uni-klu.ac.at
	http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/wiho
	Paul Pölzlbauer
	p.poelzlbauer@gmx.at
	Thorsten D. Barth
	thorsten.d.barth@gmail.com
	Georg Pölzlbauer
	poelzlbauer@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
	Recommended citation:
	Campbell, David F. J. / Paul Pölzlbauer / Thorsten D. Barth / Georg Pölzlbauer (2012).
	Democracy Ranking 2012 (Scores). Vienna: Democracy Ranking.