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All these countries are listed as ‘hybrid regimes’. In five categories it scored 5.67 for electoral process and pluralism, 5 for functioning of government, 2.78 for political participation, 2.5 for political culture and 4.71 for civil liberties. The EIU said it launched the Democracy Index in 2006 to provide a snapshot of the state of democracy around the world in 165 independent states and two territories, which comprise the majority of the world’s population and states (microstates excluded). Is).
Only 8 percent of the world’s countries are full democracies.
Based on scores on a number of indicators within these categories, each country is classified as having one of four types of governance: ‘full democracy’, ‘flawed democracy’, ‘shakar regime’ or ‘authoritarian regime’. The report states that only 24 countries, about 14.4 percent i.e. just 8 percent of the world’s population, live in countries that can be identified as ‘full democracies’.
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36 countries with hybrid governance
According to Sama TV report, 36 countries including Pakistan fall in the category of hybrid governance. These countries represent 17.9 percent of the global population. Mixed regimes are those where there is substantial irregularity in elections, often preventing them from being free and fair. Samaa TV, citing the EIU Index, reported that 36 countries were classified as ‘hybrid regimes’ in 2022, up from 34 in the year before.
