Democracy Index Average By Region
The following table constitutes the index average in each region.
| Rank | Region | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern America | 8.64 | 8.64 | 8.63 | 8.59 |
| 2 | Western Europe | 8.60 | 8.61 | 8.45 | 8.40 |
| 3 | Latin America & the Caribbean | 6.37 | 6.43 | 6.37 | 6.35 |
| 4 | Asia & Australasia | 5.44 | 5.58 | 5.53 | 5.51 |
| 5 | Central and Eastern Europe | 5.76 | 5.67 | 5.55 | 5.50 |
| 6 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.24 | 4.28 | 4.23 | 4.32 |
| 7 | Middle East & North Africa | 3.53 | 3.54 | 3.43 | 3.62 |
| Total | 5.52 | 5.55 | 5.46 | 5.49 |
Read more about this topic: Democracy Index
Famous quotes containing the words democracy, index, average and/or region:
“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
“May you be ordinary;
Have, like other women,
An average of talents....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don’t count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)