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India slips two positions to rank 53rd in EIU’s Democracy Index

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India’s position has slipped by two places to be placed at 53rd spot in the 2020 Democracy Index, from among 167 countries.
Democracy Index is the global ranking released by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that provides a snapshot of the current state of democracy worldwide.
The overall score of India is 6.61 in the Index, on a scale of 0-10.
Norway has topped the Index.
Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Canada are the top five countries in the list.
From the 167 countries, the Democracy Index has classified 23 countries as full democracies, 52 as flawed democracies, 35 as hybrid regimes and 57 as authoritarian regimes. India has been classified as a ‘flawed democracy’.