India Slips Five Places on Global Democracy Index

India ranked 105 out of 179 countries on the Liberal Democracy Index in 2025, down from 100 the previous year, according to the Democracy Report 2026 released this week by the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The country has remained classified as an “electoral autocracy” since 2017.

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