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Bulgaria Ranks 53rd
in Economist Intelligence Unit's
Democracy Index 2021
Sofia, February 10 (BTA) - Bulgaria ranks 53rd out of 167 countries in the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Democracy Index 2021. Bulgaria's overall score of 6.64/10 classifies this country as a 'flawed democracy'.
The country dropped one place from 2020 when its overall score of 6.71 ranked it 52nd. The slight decline emerged in the 'functioning of government' category in 2021, when Bulgarians had to go through three separate parliamentary elections to overcome the political paralysis. In the meantime, this country was led by a caretaker government, EIU's research points out.
The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regimes: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime. /DS/NZ/
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MY1504ES.119
119 POLITICS - DEMOCRACY INDEX - BULGARIA
Bulgaria Ranks 53rd
in Economist Intelligence Unit's
Democracy Index 2021
Sofia, February 10 (BTA) - Bulgaria ranks 53rd out of 167 countries in the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Democracy Index 2021. Bulgaria's overall score of 6.64/10 classifies this country as a 'flawed democracy'.
The country dropped one place from 2020 when its overall score of 6.71 ranked it 52nd. The slight decline emerged in the 'functioning of government' category in 2021, when Bulgarians had to go through three separate parliamentary elections to overcome the political paralysis. In the meantime, this country was led by a caretaker government, EIU's research points out.
The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regimes: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime. /DS/NZ/
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