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Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean can be compared[1] according to the different definitions of democracy.[2] The V-Dem Democracy indices considers the Latin American and Caribbean countries with the highest democracy scores in 2023 as Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Jamaica and countries with lowest democracy scores as Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela.[3] Democratic backsliding can be observed in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.[4][5] Democratization is reported by V-Dem Democracy Report 2024 in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Bolivia.[6]

Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2023

Measures of democracy

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The table below shows Latin American and Caribbean countries scored on 2 high-level V-Dem Democracy indices and 4 mid-level Democracy Component indices published in 2024 evaluating the state of democracy in year 2023.[6][3][7]

V-Dem Democracy Indices (14th edition)
Country Democracy Indices Democracy Component Indices
Electoral Liberal Liberal Egalitarian Participatory Deliberative
  Costa Rica 0.868 0.816 0.953 0.886 0.648 0.945
  Uruguay 0.845 0.77 0.922 0.821 0.768 0.849
  Argentina 0.84 0.69 0.803 0.769 0.616 0.696
  Chile 0.838 0.786 0.956 0.723 0.661 0.939
  Jamaica 0.798 0.678 0.847 0.829 0.59 0.807
  Barbados 0.796 0.678 0.849 0.825 0.295 0.887
  Brazil 0.784 0.692 0.887 0.592 0.643 0.925
  Trinidad and Tobago 0.753 0.635 0.84 0.788 0.577 0.928
  Suriname 0.753 0.631 0.837 0.713 0.572 0.773
  Panama 0.73 0.571 0.76 0.541 0.518 0.737
  Colombia 0.704 0.565 0.793 0.528 0.648 0.695
  Peru 0.699 0.576 0.819 0.519 0.622 0.506
  Dominican Republic 0.685 0.438 0.577 0.46 0.595 0.837
  Ecuador 0.646 0.467 0.689 0.488 0.759 0.54
  Bolivia 0.586 0.353 0.53 0.595 0.632 0.541
  Paraguay 0.579 0.426 0.697 0.315 0.535 0.493
  Honduras 0.534 0.394 0.695 0.389 0.544 0.675
  Mexico 0.534 0.299 0.476 0.452 0.654 0.545
  Guyana 0.512 0.332 0.578 0.686 0.513 0.38
  Guatemala 0.505 0.309 0.536 0.294 0.489 0.46
  El Salvador 0.388 0.111 0.151 0.315 0.469 0.261
  Haiti 0.214 0.066 0.152 0.128 0.259 0.597
  Venezuela 0.211 0.055 0.115 0.285 0.482 0.067
  Cuba 0.176 0.058 0.151 0.771 0.236 0.3
  Nicaragua 0.17 0.027 0.042 0.306 0.28 0.033

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Geissel, Brigitte; Kneuer, Marianne; Lauth, Hans-Joachim (2016). "Measuring the quality of democracy: Introduction". International Political Science Review. 37 (5). Sage Publications: 571–579. doi:10.1177/0192512116669141. ISSN 0192-5121. JSTOR 26556872. S2CID 151808737. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ^ Greenwood, Shannon (2022-12-06). "Appendix A: Classifying democracies". Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  3. ^ a b V-Dem Institute (2024). "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  4. ^ Hellinger, Daniel C. (2020). Comparative Politics of Latin America. doi:10.4324/9781003021865. ISBN 978-1-003-02186-5.
  5. ^ Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Compilation of Selected Indices, Carla Y. Davis-Castro, Congressional Research Service, accessed 2023
  6. ^ a b Democracy Report 2024, Varieties of Democracy
  7. ^ Coppedge, Michael; et al. (2020). Varieties of Democracy. doi:10.1017/9781108347860. ISBN 978-1-108-34786-0.
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