Democracy Ranking

- Democracy Ranking 2009
- Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2009
- The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2009

Democracy Ranking 2009

# Campbell, David F. J. / Georg Pölzlbauer (2010). The Democracy Ranking 2009 of the Quality of Democracy: Method and Ranking Outcome. Comprehensive Scores and Scores for the Dimensions. Vienna: Democracy Ranking.
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# Campbell, David F. J. / Georg Pölzlbauer (2009). Das "Democracy Ranking 2009 of the Quality of Democracy": Erstveröffentlichung. Konzept und Kontext. Wien: 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 2009: Scoreboards
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Scores of the Democracy Ranking 2009*

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

Rank 2007-2008	Country	Total score 2004-2005	Total score 2007-2008	Rank loss/gain
1	Sweden	88.58	89.42	0
2	Norway	87.26	87.79	0
3	Denmark	86.03	86.23	0
4	Finland	84.47	86.15	+1
5	Netherlands	83.40	85.43	+1
6	Switzerland	85.15	85.41	-2
7	New Zealand	80.86	81.89	+1
8	Germany	80.65	80.97	+1
9	Austria	81.11	80.81	-2
10	Belgium	80.03	80.63	0
11	Australia	79.92	80.14	0
12	Canada	78.49	79.54	+1
13	United Kingdom	78.84	79.52	-1
14	Ireland	78.22	78.97	0
15	Spain	75.76	78.45	+1
16	United States	76.52	77.34	-1
17	France	75.17	76.50	0
18	Portugal	73.97	75.18	0
19	Japan	72.38	73.28	0
20	Italy	69.26	71.75	+1
21	Slovenia	70.40	71.71	-1
22	Estonia	68.27	71.47	+2
23	Israel	69.13	70.56	-1
24	Costa Rica	68.52	69.99	-1
25	Uruguay	67.27	69.69	0
26	Czech Rep.	65.87	69.63	+4
27	Lithuania	66.34	69.31	0
28	Greece	66.07	68.60	+1
29	Korea, Rep.	64.74	67.72	+3
30	Chile	66.99	67.68	-4
31	Hungary	66.09	67.03	-3
32	Poland	64.36	66.94	+1
33	Slovak Rep.	63.56	66.86	+1
34	Latvia	65.48	66.55	-3
35	Mauritius	62.32	64.80	0
36	Croatia	61.22	64.22	+1
37	Argentina	61.89	61.49	-1
38	Panama	58.65	60.94	+1
39	Bulgaria	61.17	60.48	-1
40	Peru	56.90	59.36	+2
41	Singapore	56.96	58.42	0
42	Trinidad and Tobago	52.31	57.04	+5
43	Romania	51.02	56.83	+8
44	Jamaica	53.92	55.79	0
45	El Salvador	53.76	55.35	0
46	Dominican Rep.	51.73	55.29	+2
47	Mexico	57.60	55.27	-7
48	Brazil	54.94	55.20	-5
49	Ecuador	51.09	53.63	+1
50	South Africa	53.47	53.47	-4
51	Serbia	50.60	52.95	+1
52	Namibia	50.12	51.45	+2
53	Botswana	50.46	50.93	0
54	Mongolia	49.19	49.74	+2
55	Albania	47.08	49.15	+3
56	Ghana	47.76	49.10	+1
57	Colombia	46.27	48.90	+5
58	India	46.89	48.40	+1
59	Macedonia, FYR	45.11	48.29	+6
60	Bolivia	49.31	48.24	-5
61	Ukraine	42.34	48.23	+10
62	Turkey	45.21	47.79	+2
63	Honduras	45.43	47.48	0
64	Philippines	51.19	46.91	-15
65	Paraguay	44.78	46.37	+2
66	Nicaragua	46.82	46.23	-6
67	Mali	46.33	45.40	-6
68	Indonesia	41.88	44.73	+5
69	Moldova	42.21	44.16	+3
70	Senegal	44.82	42.94	-4
71	Malaysia	42.99	42.61	-2
72	Georgia	43.76	42.13	-4
73	Guatemala	38.55	41.99	+3
74	Madagascar	40.48	40.52	0
75	Sri Lanka	42.97	40.25	-5
76	Kuwait	38.00	40.15	+2
77	Venezuela, RB	40.18	39.27	-2
78	Tanzania	37.46	39.04	0
79	Lebanon	32.60	38.95	+10
80	Malawi	35.29	36.26	0
81	Armenia	35.98	35.97	-2
82	Nepal	26.34	35.54	+11
83	Uganda	34.04	34.99	+2
84	Niger	34.42	34.69	-2
85	Morocco	33.97	34.60	+1
86	Mozambique	32.57	34.58	+4
87	Bangladesh	34.85	34.12	-6
88	Kyrgyz Rep.	32.29	33.79	+3
89	Jordan	34.29	33.66	-6
90	Burkina Faso	33.33	33.65	-3
91	Zambia	28.21	31.97	+1
92	Kenya	34.25	30.24	-8
93	Burundi	24.82	29.18	+1
94	Gambia, The	33.00	29.16	-6
95	Ethopia	24.23	24.43	0
96	Nigeria	22.69	23.71	0
97	Yemen, Rep.	19.12	19.56	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 2009

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The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2009*

* The Democracy Improvement Ranking 2009 compares the democracy ranking scores of 2004-2005 and 2007-2008.

Rank of Democracy Improvement	Country	Rank Gain/Loss	Democracy Gain/Loss Score
1	Nepal	+11	9.20
2	Lebanon	+10	6.35
3	Ukraine	+10	5.89
4	Romania	+8	5.82
5	Trinidad and Tobago	+5	4.74
6	Burundi	+1	4.36
7	Zambia	+1	3.76
8	Czech Rep.	+4	3.76
9	Dominican Rep.	+2	3.56
10	Guatemala	+3	3.44
11	Slovak Rep.	+1	3.30
12	Estonia	+2	3.20
13	Macedonia, FYR	+6	3.18
14	Croatia	+1	3.01
15	Korea, Rep.	+3	2.98
16	Lithuania	0	2.97
17	Indonesia	+5	2.84
18	Spain	+1	2.69
19	Colombia	+5	2.63
20	Turkey	+2	2.59
21	Poland	+1	2.58
22	Ecuador	+1	2.55
23	Greece	+1	2.54
24	Italy	+1	2.50
25	Mauritius	0	2.48
26	Peru	+2	2.46
27	Uruguay	0	2.42
28	Serbia	+1	2.35
29	Panama	+1	2.29
30	Kuwait	+1	2.16
31	Albania	+3	2.07
32	Honduras	0	2.05
33	Netherlands	+1	2.04
34	Mozambique	+4	2.00
35	Moldova	+3	1.95
36	Jamaica	0	1.88
37	Finland	+1	1.68
38	El Salvador	0	1.60
39	Paraguay	+2	1.59
40	Tanzania	0	1.58
41	India	+1	1.51
42	Kyrgyz Rep.	+3	1.50
43	Costa Rica	-1	1.47
44	Singapore	0	1.46
45	Israel	-1	1.42
46	Ghana	+1	1.34
47	France	0	1.33
48	Namibia	+2	1.33
49	Slovenia	-2	1.31
50	Portugal	0	1.21
51	Latvia	-3	1.08
52	Canada	+1	1.05
53	New Zealand	+1	1.04
54	Nigeria	0	1.02
55	Malawi	0	0.98
56	Uganda	+2	0.95
57	Hungary	-3	0.94
58	Japan	0	0.90
59	Sweden	0	0.84
60	United States	-1	0.82
61	Ireland	0	0.75
62	Chile	-4	0.68
63	United Kingdom	-1	0.68
64	Morocco	+1	0.63
65	Belgium	0	0.60
66	Monogolia	+2	0.55
67	Norway	0	0.54
68	Botswana	0	0.47
69	Yemen, Rep.	0	0.44
70	Germany	+1	0.32
71	Burkina Faso	-3	0.32
72	Niger	-2	0.27
73	Brazil	-5	0.26
74	Switzerland	-2	0.26
75	Australia	0	0.21
76	Ethiopia	0	0.21
77	Denmark	0	0.20
78	Madagascar	0	0.04
79	South Africa	-4	0.00
80	Armenia	-2	0.00
81	Austria	-2	-0.30
82	Malaysia	-2	-0.37
83	Argentina	-1	-0.40
84	Nicaragua	-6	-0.58
85	Jordan	-6	-0.63
86	Bulgaria	-1	-0.69
87	Bangladesh	-6	-0.73
88	Venezuela, RB	-2	-0.91
89	Mali	-6	-0.93
90	Bolivia	-5	-1.06
91	Georgia	-4	-1.63
92	Senegal	-4	-1.88
93	Mexico	-7	-2.33
94	Sri Lanka	-5	-2.72
95	Gambia, The	-6	-3.84
96	Kenya	-8	-4.01
97	Philippines	-15	-4.28

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 2009

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