The EIU Democracy Index was released on 22 January 2020.
India slipped 10 places to position in the 2019 Democracy Index's global ranking.
Norway is at the top with an overall score of 9.71 while North Korea is at the bottom of the index.
Overall, 2019 marked the worst year of global democracy score since 2006 when the rankings were first published.
According to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s measure of democracy, almost half of the world’s population lives in a democracy of some sort, although
only 5.7% reside in a full democracy.
More than one-third of the world’s population lives under authoritarian rule, with a large share being in China