A graph showing 20 V-Dem indicators and the number of countries they are declining in. Top of the list is the indicator "government censoship efforts of media" which is declining in 44 countries. More examples of indicators and how many countries they are declining in are mentioned in the post text.

#DR26 What were the aspects of Democracy that declined in the most countries over the last decade?
The figure displays the top 20 indicators that register decline in the largest number of countries between 2015 and 2025.

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Graphing Tools – V-Dem

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Graph showing how fast democracy has declined in the USA compared to five prominent cases of autocratization in the last 25 years. The U.S. line show a sharp drop over just two years, while it took Hungary over four years, Serbia eight years, and both India and Türkiye about a decade and Russia almost 14 years to reach the same total drop.

#DR26 The U.S. democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times. Within only one year, the USA’s score on the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index (LDI) has declined by 24 %, from 0.75 in 2024 to 0.57 in 2025.
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The V-Dem Dataset – V-Dem

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The image shows the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic.

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