Democracy Ranking

Democracy Ranking Archive

- Democracy Ranking 2008/2009
- Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2008/2009
- The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008/2009
- Democracy Ranking 2008
- Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2008
- The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008
- Pilot Ranking 2000

Democracy Ranking 2008/2009

# Campbell, David F. J. / Georg Pölzlbauer (2009). The Democracy Ranking 2008/2009 of the Quality of Democracy: Method and Ranking Outcome. Vienna: Democracy Ranking.
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# Campbell, David F. J. (2008). The Basic Concept for the Democracy Ranking of the Quality of Democracy. Vienna: Democracy Ranking.
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# Ranking Outcome of the Democracy Ranking 2008/2009: Scoreboards
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# Campbell, David F. J. / Georg Pölzlbauer (2008). Demokratieranking 2008/2009 von Demokratiequalität: Erstveröffentlichung / Konzept und Kontext. Wien: Democracy Ranking.
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Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2008/2009*

* The Democracy Ranking is based on a comparison of the most current years with available data. For further details see above.

Rank 2005-2006	Country	Total score 2002-2003	Total score 2005-2006	Rank loss/gain
1	Sweden	88.69	89.54	0
2	Norway	86.77	87.72	0
3	Denmark	86.08	87.13	0
4	Finland	83.78	85.82	0
5	Switzerland	82.59	85.39	+1
6	Netherlands	83.42	84.90	-1
7	New Zealand	81.47	82.78	0
8	Austria	80.89	82.75	+1
9	Australia	80.92	82.00	-1
10	Belgium	79.82	81.89	+1
11	Germany	80.25	81.38	-1
12	United Kingdom	78.82	80.50	0
13	Canada	78.57	80.21	0
14	Ireland	76.82	79.54	+1
15	Spain	75.57	78.72	+2
16	United States	77.01	78.22	-2
17	France	75.87	76.94	-1
18	Portugal	75.09	75.74	0
19	Japan	73.05	74.41	0
20	Slovenia	71.10	72.51	0
21	Israel	70.68	72.44	+1
22	Italy	70.71	72.35	-1
23	Estonia	66.47	71.69	+1
24	Costa Rica	69.16	71.54	-1
25	Greece	66.19	70.69	+2
26	Lithuania	66.35	70.63	-1
27	Latvia	65.69	69.29	+1
28	Uruguay	64.37	69.17	+4
29	Czech Republic	64.69	68.96	+2
30	Chile	65.52	68.92	-1
31	Hungary	66.26	68.65	-5
32	Korea Rep.	63.54	68.31	+2
33	Poland	65.45	67.08	-3
34	Slovak Republic	62.44	66.66	+2
35	Mauritius	63.74	65.68	-2
36	Argentina	59.76	64.59	+3
37	Croatia	60.88	64.44	0
38	Bulgaria	62.74	63.88	-3
39	Panama	60.05	62.70	-1
40	Mexico	58.74	60.38	+1
41	Peru	59.09	60.22	-1
42	Singapore	54.48	59.15	+5
43	Brazil	56.84	58.27	-1
44	Romania	55.80	57.29	-1
45	El Salvador	54.30	56.71	+3
46	Dominican Republic	53.86	56.43	+4
47	Trinidad and Tobago	53.19	56.28	+5
48	Ecuador	52.68	56.28	+6
49	Jamaica	55.02	56.16	-4
50	South Africa	53.78	55.52	+1
51	Bolivia	55.17	54.74	-7
52	Mongolia	54.02	54.61	-3
53	Philippines	54.55	54.10	-7
54	Ghana	47.06	52.11	+12
55	Colombia	48.52	51.73	+8
56	Albania	52.39	51.72	-1
57	Namibia	50.18	51.59	0
58	India	48.52	51.48	+4
59	Botswana	52.82	51.39	-6
60	Ukraine	42.51	51.26	+15
61	Honduras	48.67	51.14	-1
62	Senegal	48.56	50.84	-1
63	Nicaragua	50.53	50.82	-7
64	Mali	49.41	49.85	-6
65	Macedonia, FYR	48.50	49.37	-1
66	Turkey	43.29	48.75	+8
67	Georgia	44.69	48.45	+4
68	Moldova	47.31	48.20	-3
69	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.64	47.41	+10
70	Paraguay	46.33	47.39	-2
71	Indonesia	42.48	46.93	+5
72	Papua New Guinea	49.31	46.42	-13
73	Guatemala	44.63	46.17	-1
74	Benin	43.86	46.10	-1
75	Srik Lanka	46.58	46.04	-8
76	Malaysia	42.07	45.79	+1
77	Venezuela, RB	45.18	45.09	-7
78	Madagascar	45.61	44.93	-9
79	Tanzania	41.30	42.46	+1
80	Kuwait	39.99	42.38	+2
81	Niger	35.92	41.23	+9
82	Lebanon	30.62	40.39	+14
83	Bangladesh	38.16	40.39	0
84	Jordan	34.60	39.37	+8
85	Malawi	36.90	39.23	+3
86	Kenya	31.89	39.21	+8
87	Morocco	37.42	39.01	-1
88	Uganda	36.05	38.82	+1
89	Guinea-Bissau	29.53	38.67	+9
90	Kyrgyz Republic	34.62	38.35	+1
91	Burkina Faso	37.99	38.33	-7
92	Armenia	41.94	38.08	-14
93	Mozambique	37.17	37.77	-6
94	Gambia, The	37.94	37.37	-9
95	Gabon	40.26	35.93	-14
96	Burundi	25.02	35.75	+6
97	Sierra Leone	34.58	35.45	-4
98	Mauritania	30.66	32.68	-3
99	Ethiopia	28.78	31.12	0
100	Central Africa	26.27	30.91	+1
101	Zambia	30.57	30.87	-4
102	Nigeria	26.46	29.59	-2
103	Yemen, Rep.	24.50	24.49	0

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

Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2008/2009

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The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008/2009*

* The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008/2009 compares the democracy ranking scores of 2002-2003 and 2005-2006.

Rank of Democracy Improvement	Country	Rank loss/gain	Democracy loss/gain Score
1	Burundi	+6	10.7
2	Lebanon	+14	9.8
3	Guinea-Bissau	+9	9.1
4	Ukraine	+15	8.8
5	Kenya	+8	7.3
6	Bosnia and Herzegovina	+10	5.8
7	Turkey	+8	5.5
8	Niger	+9	5.3
9	Estonia	+1	5.2
10	Ghana	+12	5.0
11	Argentina	+3	4.8
12	Uruguay	+4	4.8
13	Jordan	+8	4.8
14	Korea, Rep.	+2	4.8
15	Singapore	+5	4.7
16	Central African Republic	+1	4.6
17	Greece	+2	4.5
18	Indonesia	+5	4.4
19	Lithuania	-1	4.3
20	Czech Republic	+2	4.3
21	Slovak Republic	+2	4.2
22	Georgia	+4	3.8
23	Kyrgyz Republic	+1	3.7
24	Malaysia	+1	3.7
25	Latvia	+1	3.6
26	Ecuador	+6	3.6
27	Croatia	0	3.6
28	Chile	-1	3.4
29	Colombia	+8	3.2
30	Spain	+2	3.2
31	Nigeria	-2	3.1
32	Trinidad and Tobago	+5	3.1
33	India	+4	3.0
34	Switzerland	+1	2.8
35	Uganda	+1	2.8
36	Ireland	+1	2.7
37	Panama	-1	2.7
38	Dominican Republic	+4	2.6
39	Honduras	-1	2.5
40	El Salvador	+3	2.4
41	Kuwait	+2	2.4
42	Hungary	-5	2.4
43	Costa Rica	-1	2.4
44	Ethiopia	0	2.3
45	Malawi	+3	2.3
46	Senegal	-1	2.3
47	Benin	-1	2.2
48	Bangladesh	0	2.2
49	Belgium	+1	2.1
50	Finland	0	2.0
51	Mauritania	-3	2.0
52	Mauritius	-2	1.9
53	Austria	+1	1.9
54	Israel	+1	1.8
55	South Africa	+1	1.7
56	United Kingdom	0	1.7
57	Mexico	+1	1.6
58	Italy	-1	1.6
59	Canada	0	1.6
60	Poland	-3	1.6
61	Morocco	-1	1.6
62	Guatemala	-1	1.5
63	Romania	-1	1.5
64	Netherlands	-1	1.5
65	Brazil	-1	1.4
66	Namibia	0	1.4
67	Slovenia	0	1.4
68	Japan	0	1.4
69	New Zealand	0	1.3
70	United States	-2	1.2
71	Tanzania	+1	1.2
72	Bulgaria	-3	1.1
73	Jamaica	-4	1.1
74	Peru	-1	1.1
75	Germany	-1	1.1
76	Australia	-1	1.1
77	France	-1	1.1
78	Paraguay	-2	1.1
79	Denmark	0	1.0
80	Norway	0	1.0
81	Moldova	-3	0.9
82	Sierra Leone	-4	0.9
83	Macedonia, FYR	-1	0.9
84	Sweden	0	0.8
85	Portugal	0	0.7
86	Mozambique	-6	0.6
87	Mongolia	-3	0.6
88	Mali	-6	0.4
89	Burkina Faso	-7	0.3
90	Zambia	-4	0.3
91	Nicaragua	-7	0.3
92	Yemen, Rep.	0	0.0
93	Venezuela, RB	-7	-0.1
94	Bolivia	-7	-0.4
95	Philippines	-7	-0.4
96	Sri Lanka	-8	-0.5
97	Gambia, The	-9	-0.6
98	Albania	-1	-0.7
99	Madagascar	-9	-0.7
100	Botswana	-6	-1.4
101	Papa New Guinea	-13	-2.9
102	Armenia	-14	-3.9
103	Gabon	-14	-4.3

Green: Country is among the 10 best		Green: Country has gained in rank since the previous period	Green: Gain of democracy score
		White: Country's rank has remained stable over the two periods
Red: Country is among the 10 worst		Red: Country has lost in rank since the previous period	Red: Loss of democracy score

The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008/2009

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Democracy Ranking 2008

# Campbell, David F. J. / Georg Pölzlbauer (2008). The Democracy Ranking 2008 of the Quality of Democracy: Method and Ranking Outcome. Vienna: Democracy Ranking.
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# Campbell, David F. J. (2008). The Basic Concept for the Democracy Ranking of the Quality of Democracy. Vienna: Democracy Ranking.
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# Ranking Outcome of the Democracy Ranking 2008: Scoreboards
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Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2008*

* The Democracy Ranking is based on a comparison of the most current years with available data. For further details see above.

Rank 2004-2005	Country	Total score 2001-2002	Total score 2004-2005	Rank loss/gain
1	Sweden	89.08	90.25	0
2	Norway	87.54	89.47	0
3	Denmark	87.42	88.65	0
4	Switzerland	86.55	87.53	0
5	Finland	85.24	86.61	0
6	Netherlands	84.46	86.06	0
7	New Zealand	83.29	85.09	+1
8	Austria	83.34	84.72	-1
9	Australia	82.41	84.37	0
10	United Kingdom	80.29	83.95	+4
11	Germany	80.96	83.83	+1
12	United States	81.89	83.42	-2
13	Belgium	80.51	83.19	0
14	Ireland	80.13	82.81	+1
15	Canada	81.36	82.27	-4
16	France	78.57	81.36	0
17	Spain	77.60	81.05	0
18	Portugal	77.30	78.41	0
19	Italy	74.47	77.54	+1
20	Japan	75.61	77.04	-1
21	Slovenia	73.36	76.73	0
22	Israel	73.29	75.72	0
23	Costa Rica	70.32	74.79	+1
24	Hungary	68.59	73.20	+1
25	Estonia	67.53	73.17	+2
26	Latvia	67.52	72.19	+2
27	Czech Republic	67.14	71.89	+4
28	Lithuania	67.33	71.60	+1
29	Uruguay	70.44	71.57	-6
30	Greece	67.26	71.51	0
31	Chile	65.62	70.90	+2
32	Mauritius	67.84	70.74	-6
33	Poland	66.90	70.71	-1
34	Slovak Republic	65.34	70.34	0
35	Korea. Rep.	64.67	70.29	0
36	Argentina	59.63	65.63	+5
37	Bulgaria	62.29	65.46	+1
38	Panama	63.38	65.34	-2
39	Croatia	62.51	64.89	-2
40	Mexico	60.07	63.31	0
41	Peru	60.60	60.86	-2
42	Brazil	57.55	60.49	+3
43	South Africa	59.54	59.89	-1
44	Ghana	52.27	59.46	+14
45	Dominican Republic	59.50	59.34	-2
46	Singapore	53.61	58.75	+7
47	El Salvador	56.47	58.42	+2
48	Romania	57.84	58.31	-4
49	Jamaica	57.19	57.71	-2
50	Philippines	57.47	56.99	-4
51	Mongolia	53.75	55.93	0
52	Trinidad and Tobago	52.75	55.61	+2
53	Mali	51.03	54.94	+8
54	Ecuador	52.30	54.90	+3
55	Albania	51.47	54.68	+5
56	Namibia	52.58	53.97	0
57	India	52.71	53.80	-2
58	Papua New Guinea	55.99	53.44	-8
59	Nicaragua	52.15	53.12	0
60	Colombia	49.39	53.00	+3
61	Bolivia	56.71	53.00	-13
62	Botswana	53.64	52.89	-10
63	Sri Lanka	47.29	52.38	+3
64	Senegal	47.21	51.68	+5
65	Honduras	49.76	51.43	-3
66	Ukraine	44.76	51.29	+8
67	Macedonia. FYR	47.28	51.26	0
68	Paraguay	48.05	51.20	-3
69	Benin	46.62	50.49	+2
70	Georgia	45.44	49.77	+3
71	Turkey	41.75	49.61	+6
72	Indonesia	44.67	49.36	+3
73	Moldova	49.06	49.00	-9
74	Madagascar	47.25	48.69	-6
75	Malaysia	40.67	48.13	+5
76	Venezuela. RB	45.90	45.06	-4
77	Guatemala	46.79	44.78	-7
78	Bangladesh	41.74	42.53	0
79	Tanzania	41.06	42.46	0
80	Jordan	35.87	42.28	+7
81	Niger	34.38	41.70	+8
82	Armenia	43.60	41.29	-6
83	Kenya	25.49	41.25	+13
84	Morocco	37.55	41.00	-1
85	Kuwait	38.13	39.86	-3
86	Guinea-Bissau	32.66	38.77	+4
87	Gambia. The	35.07	38.51	+1
88	Mozambique	37.49	38.43	-4
89	Uganda	32.46	38.31	+2
90	Burkina Faso	38.24	37.52	-9
91	Malawi	37.33	37.11	-6
92	Sierra Leone	31.32	36.87	0
93	Gabon	37.10	34.55	-7
94	Burundi	22.07	32.32	+3
95	Nigeria	26.55	31.23	0
96	Zambia	28.89	28.64	-2
97	Ethiopia	29.02	28.26	-4
98	Yemen, Rep.	21.67	26.05	0

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

Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2008

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The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008*

* The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008 compares the democracy ranking scores of 2001-2002 and 2004-2005.

Rank of Democracy Improvement	Country	Rank loss/gain	Democracy loss/gain Score
1	Kenya	+13	15.8
2	Burundi	+3	10.2
3	Turkey	+6	7.9
4	Malaysia	+5	7.5
5	Niger	+8	7.3
6	Ghana	+14	7.2
7	Ukraine	+8	6.5
8	Jordan	+7	6.4
9	Guinea-Bissau	+4	6.1
10	Argentina	+5	6.0
11	Uganda	+2	5.8
12	Estonia	+2	5.6
13	Korea. Rep.	0	5.6
14	Sierra Leone	0	5.6
15	Chile	+2	5.3
16	Singapore	+7	5.1
17	Sri Lanka	+3	5.1
18	Slovak Republic	0	5.0
19	Czech Republic	+4	4.8
20	Indonesia	+3	4.7
21	Nigeria	0	4.7
22	Latvia	+2	4.7
23	Hungary	+1	4.6
24	Senegal	+5	4.5
25	Costa Rica	+1	4.5
26	Yemen. Rep.	0	4.4
27	Georgia	+3	4.3
28	Lithuania	+1	4.3
29	Greece	0	4.2
30	Macedonia. FYR	0	4.0
31	Mali	+8	3.9
32	Benin	+2	3.9
33	Poland	-1	3.8
34	United Kingdom	+4	3.7
35	Colombia	+3	3.6
36	Spain	0	3.4
37	Morocco	-1	3.4
38	Gambia. The	+1	3.4
39	Slovenia	0	3.4
40	Mexico	0	3.2
41	Albania	+5	3.2
42	Bulgaria	+1	3.2
43	Paraguay	-3	3.1
44	Italy	+1	3.1
45	Brazil	+3	2.9
46	Mauritius	-6	2.9
47	Germany	+1	2.9
48	Trinidad and Tobago	+2	2.9
49	France	0	2.8
50	Belgium	0	2.7
51	Ireland	+1	2.7
52	Ecuador	+3	2.6
53	Israel	0	2.4
54	Croatia	-2	2.4
55	Mongolia	0	2.2
56	Panama	-2	2.0
57	El Salvador	+2	2.0
58	Australia	0	2.0
59	Norway	0	1.9
60	New Zealand	+1	1.8
61	Kuwait	-3	1.7
62	Honduras	-3	1.7
63	Netherlands	0	1.6
64	United States	-2	1.5
65	Madagascar	-6	1.4
66	Japan	-1	1.4
67	Tanzania	0	1.4
68	Namibia	0	1.4
69	Austria	-1	1.4
70	Finland	0	1.4
71	Denmark	0	1.2
72	Sweden	0	1.2
73	Uruguay	-6	1.1
74	Portugal	0	1.1
75	India	-2	1.1
76	Switzerland	0	1.0
77	Nicaragua	0	1.0
78	Mozambique	-4	0.9
79	Canada	-4	0.9
80	Bangladesh	0	0.8
81	Jamaica	-2	0.5
82	Romania	-4	0.5
83	South Africa	-1	0.4
84	Peru	-2	0.3
85	Moldova	-9	-0.1
86	Dominican Republic	-2	-0.2
87	Malawi	-6	-0.2
88	Zambia	-2	-0.3
89	Philippines	-4	-0.5
90	Burkina Faso	-9	-0.7
91	Botswana	-10	-0.7
92	Ethiopia	-4	-0.8
93	Venezuela. RB	-4	-0.8
94	Guatemala	-7	-2.0
95	Armenia	-6	-2.3
96	Gabon	-7	-2.5
97	Papua New Guinea	-8	-2.6
98	Bolivia	-13	-3.7

Green: Country is among the 10 best		Green: Country has gained in rank since the previous period	Green: Gain of democracy score
		White: Country's rank has remained stable over the two periods
Red: Country is among the 10 worst		Red: Country has lost in rank since the previous period	Red: Loss of democracy score

The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2008

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Pilot Ranking 2000

# Campbell, David F. J. / Miklós Sükösd (eds.) (2003). Global Quality Ranking of Democracies: Pilot Ranking 2000. Vienna: Global Democracy Award.
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