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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index shows that average democracy index has n

• Kbelicius 3y ago
  Where? It says that world average in 2006 was 5.52 and in 2022 it was 5.29. That is clearly a downward movement.
  • hpaavola 3y ago
    "has been going downwards for 15 consecutive years" that was the claim. It's not been going down for 15 consecutive years as there has been ups and downs during the past 15 years. The overall trend is down, but going downwards for 15 years in a row is not true.
  • inexcf 3y ago
    You ignored the "15 consecutive years". Not that it matters much, but it went from 5.52 to 5.55 to 5.46 to 5.55 and then down to 5.29 since 2016. It was a bit of a pedantic point but it's 6 consecutive years.
    • hpaavola 3y ago
      Actually, the index went up last year. So 0 consecutive years of downwards trend.