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Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in the Americas for 2024:[needs update]

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

Measures of democracy

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The table below shows countries in the Americas scored on 2 high-level V-Dem Democracy indices and 4 mid-level Democracy Component indices published in 2025 evaluating the state of democracy in year 2024.[6][7]

V-Dem Democracy Indices
Country Democracy Indices Democracy Component Indices
Electoral Liberal Liberal Egalitarian Participatory Deliberative
Image Costa Rica 0.859 0.805 0.952 0.885 0.641 0.931
Image Uruguay 0.848 0.769 0.912 0.777 0.815 0.842
Image Chile 0.844 0.787 0.949 0.719 0.644 0.94
Image Canada 0.842 0.744 0.887 0.699 0.632 0.753
Image United States of America 0.84 0.748 0.89 0.667 0.655 0.884
Image Jamaica 0.803 0.684 0.848 0.787 0.604 0.731
Image Brazil 0.801 0.712 0.9 0.617 0.628 0.944
Image Barbados 0.786 0.67 0.848 0.842 0.298 0.926
Image Suriname 0.768 0.637 0.821 0.715 0.581 0.764
Image Trinidad and Tobago 0.755 0.627 0.826 0.786 0.582 0.925
Image Panama 0.726 0.584 0.794 0.576 0.524 0.737
Image Argentina 0.712 0.553 0.76 0.73 0.591 0.535
Image Dominican Republic 0.705 0.45 0.571 0.471 0.595 0.818
Image Colombia 0.701 0.557 0.779 0.528 0.634 0.645
Image Ecuador 0.651 0.446 0.639 0.366 0.754 0.442
Image Peru 0.634 0.493 0.761 0.509 0.604 0.405
Image Guatemala 0.597 0.469 0.768 0.327 0.594 0.594
Image Paraguay 0.579 0.388 0.618 0.312 0.516 0.458
Image Bolivia 0.576 0.314 0.461 0.593 0.628 0.473
Image Honduras 0.541 0.382 0.658 0.408 0.537 0.687
Image Mexico 0.505 0.251 0.397 0.438 0.617 0.423
Image Guyana 0.491 0.315 0.568 0.675 0.516 0.378
Image El Salvador 0.339 0.092 0.137 0.264 0.451 0.268
Image Haiti 0.218 0.079 0.192 0.128 0.259 0.592
Image Venezuela 0.197 0.049 0.101 0.263 0.492 0.023
Image Cuba 0.178 0.055 0.138 0.753 0.17 0.286
Image Nicaragua 0.153 0.019 0.022 0.271 0.295 0.017

See also

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By country

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By region

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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. 1 2 Democracy Report 2024, Varieties of Democracy
  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. ↑ "Democracy Report 2025, 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped?" (PDF). Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  7. ↑ "The V-Dem Dataset – V-Dem". V-Dem. V-Dem Institute. 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
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