The Most & Least Democratic Countries in the World
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*Are you surprised by any of the results on the map?*
No
Where is belgium?
@@pusheenfan7436 LMAO
MURICA #1 LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE OBESITY
@@georgewashington4032 In Western Europe, bordering France, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Germany.
"democratic republic of Congo"
They really clickbaited their entire nation
Damn
This deserves more likes
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Ice land and Greenland allow us to introduce ourselves
The Very Democratic People's Republic of Korea
I think it's ironic, that the two least democratic countries have "Democratic" in their full name
"Democratic People's Republic Korea"
"Democratic Republic of the Congo"
@@jamescollier3 put down that crack pipe bud, that shit ain't healthy.
@@jamescollier3 antifa has nothing to do with these countries, antifa is anti fascism whereas both countries are fascist
They know what they're doing 🤣
What do they do with democracy and like too much?
@@jamescollier3 this is a shit take
I love how Mongolia is landlocked, poor, depopulated, and surrounded by historically communist regimes but is still democratic never would have guessed
Well most of Mongolia’s population herd livestock on the steppe and live in tents.
@@The-NSA that’s what I meant, you can imagine voting day? A logistics nightmare and still doing better than some countries in Europe
@@jessiemayfield6749 yeah
It’s not surrounded by communist regimes
Whenever it's time to call a vote for the new president, all Mongols in the country attend the Kurultai.
"Democracy is the best" - Kim Jong Un
Fucked up democracy 😂😂😂😂
No, Kim. Authoritarianism is important for you and we hate it.
😂😂
Kim:Yes,so democracy is only mine.Undemocracy is yours.
In reality, Deoncracy is Communism.
Lesson of the day is that ”Democratic” in country’s name is often a clickbait.
West Germany: Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany) East Germany: Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
@@piekay7285 You should always be suspicious when a country bears democratic and republic in its name because it means 2 times the same thing: one time in greek and one time in latin. its kind of a double positive...
@@eagle1de227 That’s not true: republic comes from Res Publica which means public affair and democracy means something like rule of the people. A Republic can be undemocratic but a democracy has to be a republic, but tbf English isn’t a good language to explain it in. The best language would be German but I doubt that you could understand it
Hence the Anathema of 'Liberal democracy'
*LOL*
This study: Canada and USA form a continent on their own.
Also this study: Australia and New Zeeland is grouped with eastern Asia.
???
Pretty arbitrary if you ask me
Just skewing data. Split one continent in half and combine another two together. Only way USA can still "win".
The English have weirdest ideas about the world. Often using the bad grouping of East Asia with Australia and the south-west Pacific.
Only makes sense to the English. Certainly not to the peoples of these regions. Arrogance and stupidity.
@@fatheranthony4pope Except the USA had nothing to do with this study, nor does it win. America is not even in the top eleven, so update your ideas Comrade.
@@fatheranthony4pope what? that makes no sense. America had nothing to do with this study so stop blaming literally everything on them
General Knowledge: **has a black pencil cryaon**
Also General Knowledge: **draws in orange, blue, green, yellow and purple with it**
lol talk about nitpicking
Crayon?
If you combine all colours it can draw, it appears close to black. That's completely normal, nothing to worry about...
@Eli Wilson 1 digit IQ thats why !
Democracy is not perfect but it is best out of every other alternative. ❤️ To all democratic countries from an Indian citizen.
Hi from democratic country too, love from Indonesia 🇮🇩❤️
A free marked capitalist society - anarcho capitalism
@@ImAilkenFPS yeah democracy is free market capitalism pretty much all of the trime
India is not true democracy. USA is true democracy and federalism. India is central govt controlled.
@@keralanaturelover196 omg US the country which ensures a low vote turnout??
Make a video: The Most and Least Corrupt countries in the World
Latin america: My time has come
The us #1 on 1 end iceland #1 the other
As far as I know, there are no reliable statistics on that unfortunately. There is a corruption *perception* index - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index - but it only measures how corrupt people *believe* various countries are and the only thing you can really learn from it is that some people believe just anything.
Scandinavia
@@incased_pol7335
Italy: Hold my pasta
“I love democracy.” -Sheev Palpatine
"I love democracy." ~Joe Biden
@@timothymckane6362 I think Biden is a sith lord
k
@@chandankhuntia77 wtf dude
@@umbra6771 If biden is a sith lord, Trump is Darth Jar Jar Binks
Americans when they’re not even top 20 most democratic: “Impossible. Perhaps the archives are incomplete”
The US is a constitutional republic so it's not that surprising.
@@mwskyrim5516 true, but aren’t a republic and a democracy the same? If not, can you explain the difference
@@piercemartin4846 no, a (Direct) democracy is where a the people vote on both laws and leaders. Republics are when the people vote for representatives to make laws.
The index is BS. Norway being on top makes absolutely no sense, because with a quick google search you will find that Norway has strict laws against "hate speech". You can't claim to be "the most democratic country" but not have the most important right of all that is freedom of speech.
@@newwaveinfantry8362 in America it is against the law to walk across the road and you’re calling Norway BS?
One must keep in mind that freedom and democracy are two different things. They are definitely related though: a free society must be a democratic one, but a democratic society is not necessarily free.
i looked up the various freedom indexes and most of them correlate pretty well to the democracy index. for example scandinavia ranks highly in both
Stop lying, Madagascar ain't democracy, it's a monarchy. Julian is its king.
You can be a monarchy and a democracy. Look at the UK, Belgium, Netherland, Sweden...even Canada and Australia are technically monarchies.
@@alioshax7797 Bro, that was a joke. Did you watch Madagascar?
@@baldwinthefourth4098 I don't know much about Madagascar's political regime. I'm just saying that being a democracy and a monarchy at the same time is perfectly possible.
@@alioshax7797 I meant the movie Madagascar man 🤣
@@baldwinthefourth4098 xDDD I'm a fucking idiot. Damn man you get me 100%
"Those who lived before you fought to achieve." Me, a german: "Yeah about that..."
my great grrandpa Was a nazi lol!
Very reductive view of German history
@@Thatotter223 You know that was a joke, right?
@@willywodka1924 nah it was the classical left wing globalist comment on something that they don’t understand, like history or basic politics.
@@donkey7921 what
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
very interesting content - thank you for sharing this! Rudi Belgium
Culturally, Mexico belongs to Latin America, while geographically it belongs to North America.
Well the north even culturally belongs to north america, cities like TJ, Monterrey are much more closer culturally to North America than to Central or South
Because then Mexicans will bring down the average
This is a joke and it’s weird how it’s not counted for North America
@@checomartinez3854 There isn't such a thing as North America when it comes to culture, North America refers only to the geographical division of the continent, the cultural term would be Anglo America and I honestly doubt even the nothern regions of Mexico can be counted as a part of it
@@freyzerb.castro9124 true ,Quebec is unique compared to english speaking N.A. for example and northern México is just like the rest of México but more cowbow-ish, i dont know why they keep insisting on their "uniqueness"
@@checomartinez3854 the poorer areas of TJ and monterrey look like tegucigalpa or San Salvador dont lie to yourself
Who needs a democracy everyone is happy under the glorious potato regime
Hail potato
@@salihalraziqi4963 hail is for fascists scum comrade we prefer long live the potato
@@apotato5567 ok nevermind then
You are mine.
@@moggie but I thought I got rid of you in 1845
This video was very complete in my view. Great job! 🤠👍
I love the nuance taken with consideration of strict categorization, and am amazed you would place at least a minute of 15 to specify those details! Thank you so much for that and I wish all content makers of intellectual content would do so. Also to note: you specified the flaws potentially misused within each chart that was easily misused (no-one can specify all misusing's as they are by definition infinite, but you covered the most important ones and I thank you for that).
Boy,am I proud of being an Indian in a sea of red countries. 🌈🇮🇳
Ditto Israel
You folks are very fortunate.
It should be in dark green
Are you maybe but just MAYBEE an gay indian?
But you're country is poor
As a Canadian I can say that we don't deserve that high of a rank. We don't even vote for our senators.
I dont care i like your profile picture
I think they overvalued the UK too, I think FPTP should bring down the "political plurality" score far more than it does.
You guys are to nice you give even your place away
God save the Queen
I am a Canadian from N.S.
12:14 I wasn't surprised by Greece's high 92% support of democracy and its values, but by its lower support anywhere else..
I'm from Russia and I'm surprised what "deficit of democracy" in Russia isn't equal minus 146%
Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the least democratic and Democratic Republic of Congo is the second least democratic
This is not the only country.
Many use the name democratic, but the inhabitants can say nothing.
and that is why you never judge a country, Party, movement, organisation etc on their name.
Oof
opinion of UK ? :)))
dictator Queen in UK have opinion 'bout democracy in your country? :)
go to hell, Queen :)
DPRK is the most democratic country in the world, they're just a country that isn't a U.S. puppet state
The Turtle Republic is the most democratic country in the world.
I like U Adolf Ohhhh Yaaaaa
No no the potato republic
@Adolf Hitler I like ⚽️s
All hail the Great Turtle!
@@apotato5567 long live the potato republic comrade
I decided to do the calculations for averages based on continents (taken from Wikipedia) instead of the arbitrary regions shown. Since some countries showed up in two continents I chose the continent they are physically on, example Kazakhstan is listed in both Europe and Asia but is physically in Asia.
Oceania (4 of 13 countries) Average 7.56
Europe (40 of 46 countries) Average 7.40
South America (12 of 12 countries) Average 6.46
North America (14 of 23 countries) Average 6.21
Asia (47 of 49 countries) Average 4.40
Africa (50 of 54 countries) Average 4.22
Countries not included in Democratic Index:
North America: Belize, Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Europe: Kosovo, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican City
Africa: Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles
Asia: Brunei, Maldives
Oceania: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tuvalu
As for the grouping, there is a more mathematical way to group countries together using grapth analysis.
Make a graph with every country being a node and put a link between nodes if they share a border (hum...make all island nations connected to each other? as long as they are in the same ocean? idk). Look at the squared difference between their scores and proceed to do network analsys for grouping.
2nd least democratic country:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
*-ironic*
LMAOOOO IKR
Least democratic country:
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
-very ironic
LMAO
Imagine there were only 2 countries in the world
NMSL
I love democracy.
I love the republic.
-Sheev Palpatine (a.k.a. THE SENATE), 22 BBY
He is the senate after all
This video really interested me. I'm tempted to subscribe.
I will like to see the ranking analysis next year (2021). Perceptions are interesting...
Interesting to see how much Covid has changed people's perception of democracy.
“Many people before you fought to achieve”
My grandparents who were fighting to be treated like normal humans: yeah um about that.
My grangrand parent fought under a totalitarian regime to be at least save from even more totalitarian regime, and by doing that he almost got oppresed by the totalitarian regime he fought for
Probably someone of my grandgrandparents fought on the Bolsheviks side
@@mekolayn USSR
to become democratic my country had to be colonized by a democratic country so this is debunked
"Democracy is 2 Wolves and a Lamb deciding on what to have for dinner." - Benjamin Franklin
@@Heath580 exactly
The second part of the quote is the best “Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
@@votesus9819 of course it is his quote
Great to see you understand how democracy is evil.
@@votesus9819 oh I honestly did not look at the comments above when I commented lol sorry
Excellent presentation
Excellent and free of ideology analysis, it all makes sense from whatever perspective you look at it. Well done indeed mate!
Thailand is democratic?
Prayuth: Laughing as his "election" worked.
You are Thai ?
Can you please tell why your Kingand queen has " Indian " names ? 🙄
@@MidhunKrishnaR The Ramayana had a huge cultural influence (Part of why the Thai kings are called 'Rama') and was a major influence on the Ramakien (the Thai national epic)
As a result, a lot of the King's names are based on Sanskrit or outright references to the Ramayana and Ramakien
For example the current kings name, Vajiralongkorn... Which can mean "Possessor of the thunderbolt of Indra" although it can also mean something like adorned in diamonds, as Wachira means both.
@@seventh-hydra Oh , so Hinduism was once in Thailand 🙄?
@@MidhunKrishnaR A little bit, but mostly it was Thereveda Buddhist. It just had an impact, and hinduism did influence this style of buddhism. I don't really know the history of why, maybe a lot of influence from Indian traders in the early days which left a lasting legacy.
Another example of that influence is the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (one of the early major Thai kingdoms), similar to Ayodhaya.
@@seventh-hydra 😮 your knowledge is mind-blowing 👏
As a Norwegian im drowning im democracy over here
Practically swimming in success
as a bangladeshi bruh
@Your Majesty,I'm sure the kids can sleep in their parents beds, that would be protected rights under any European nation
Monarchies are the best democracies 👌
@@yellow01umrella the most successful democracies is mostly nations where the monarch "voluntarily" gave up power.
I think it's really good that you take different aspects into account. Saying things like "these results don't mean a country is democratic. They can also mean that..." It makes a person aware that results are not always black and white, and that they can be scewed due to certain factors.
DPRK and DRC: yep, we're democratic alright!
Rest of the word: uh..who's gonna tell them?
Merry Christmas, General Knowledge🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
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For some countries, their flaws are hidden very deep within the system, and are impossible for this survey to find.
Exactly! Like the "full democracy" countries may look perfect and free, but they're not full democracies, as democracy literally means rule of the people, and not every person rules in these 'democracies'
@@SparrowValentine There are no real democracies in the world. Switzerland is the closest thing since the citizens keep voting there on various things throughout the year, but all the other democracies in the world are representative democracies. It means the citizens elect politicians for a period of time to handle the things. Even representative democracies may have direct voting every now and then, such as in the UK the Brexit vote. Democracies, by nature, aren't the most efficient form of government, and a direct democracy is even less efficient. Voters, that is, the adult citizens, typically have their own work and business going on, they haven't got the time to read hundreds of pages of stuff to make educated decisions. The politicians, however, are paid to do nothing but go through that stuff in order to make intelligent decisions. This is why direct democracies aren't more common.
Well no these flaws often affect how democratic the country, this then affects how people view their country. Even when they can’t find it the first half of the video isn’t a survey
@@SparrowValentine well it means they function like a democracy, not are a democracy. Not to mention a modern day complete pure democracy is nearly impossible with so many citizens
@@Windja69 it is possible... democracy isn't meant to be used in a widespread way, having communities with a couple hundred or thousand people all around the world, can work with democracy
Something to keep in mind when quoting fractional numbers. They can be full verbal representation preceding the decimal, but the correct verbal nuance for any digits following the decimal is always singular. For example: 24.24 is "twenty-four point two four" not "twenty-four point twenty-four" ;)
It will be interesting to see how this one ages! Videos like this covering different time periods would be interesting, too. For instance, Portugal was once under Salazar and Chile under Pinochet...and the USA is on a real rollercoaster.
I like how the countries that name themselves "Democratic" are actually the least Democratic.
USA: "We're the best democracy in the world!"
Actually, a flawed democracy.
*surprised pikachu face*
But then they'll say "we're not a democracy, we are a republic"
@@RodrigoroRex that is such a stupid excuse for the us not being democratic enough. A republic counts as a democracy here. It's a representative democracy.
@@muricaball3350 Eh, the democratic index is pretty flawed to begin with. I think the electoral college is a necessary function of US federalism and unity yet the democratic index uses it to count the US as a "flawed democracy". I can understand from the POV of "not direct enough" but then by that logic Parliamentary democracies should also be "flawed" because they don't directly vote in their executives and leave that to the party and coalitions are not exactly chosen either.
That's just my take.
@@RodrigoroRex representative democracy/consitutional republic...no were not a true democracy..
@@stephenjenkins7971 What do you mean about parliament democracies ? I don't know for other countries, but here (france, not a parliamentary democracy i know) we directly vote for the members of parliament, as well as for the president. only the senators are indirectly elected, by the parliament and other local reprsentants.
nice presentation very interesting keep it up
I would enjoy your take on the top functioning nations and democracies on indices like education, ppp, gdp, rime, happiness, resources etc.
You might be uniquely positioned to show how stability can be achieved. Thanks for your efforts.
Omg, since when Mexico is not on North America?!?!! WTF!!!!!
@@galanothi Mexico is in North America
Didn't all of central america included Caribbean is part of north America? Since there is only 2 continent in the Americas
There is only 1 continent, south, central or North america are only regional divisions... Like in europe there are east europe and scandinavia, for example
@@tsu4869 When I was going to school, our school atlases had 2 continents for the Americas, North America (Canada and the United States), and Latin America (everything else). When I got to high school, it was changed to have everything from Panana North to be part of North America. My atlas was published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1970. I grew up in Alberta, Canada. I entered high school in 1989 (born in 74).
@@keltdavies8792 sad bro... Canada is supposed to have a great school sistem...
Video about democracy
*Imperial Russian anthem plays in the background*
I don't know about the song but crimea became russias property in this map!?
@@BatkoMahnovets because it is Russia's land. De facto.
Watching a lot of your videos just makes me feel lucky to be Dutch tbh
Staye blessed Sir. Thank u sir
I absolutely adore how you put the effort in these videos to keep people aware that critical thought is still important, and that not all seen here should be taken as facts.
I personally appreciate this.
........eh!???
European here, I must add something that is based entirely on my opinion, thus people are free to disagree respectfully with me - some nations who've been on the Eastern side of the Iron curtain during the Cold War, although they're still regarded as democracies, should be in my opinion placed on a somewhat lower rank than they actually are. A clear example of this would be my home country of Bulgaria - an incredibly powerful oligarchic society has emerged which has embedded itself in almost all of the civil administration in my nation. This results in a clear trend of corruption practiced on all levels of power and a low rank of freedom of the press - I believe Reporters without borders have places us at around 110-111th place overall worldwide. There is a clear trend here that although ex-Soviet influenced nations are struggling and trying hard to establish a democratic society, endorsed by culture and education, a lot should not fall under the category of a flawed democracy, rather it should be categorized at the line between a hybrid regime and a flawed democracy - Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine,Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. All these nations have clear issues regarding their current democracy IMO and I would be more than happy to be respectfully proven wrong by people who live in these places. But in my opinion, the real reason that these nations from Eastern Europe are struggling and should not be placed in such a high place is because overall the concept of a democratic society is not as strong as for example the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries and more. These countries, especially the UK and France are the birthplace of modern democracy as we know it and have shed a lot of their blood to defend these ideals that are currently being established in the ex-communist states.
P.S.: Please do excuse me if some errors are found, English isn't my native language.
good point very well made. I think we need to remember that in the area we are referring to, the democracy is currently 30 years old at best. yes, some of those nations have been, albeit briefly, democratic but that was before WW2 and doesn't, therefore, count. that means that practically all of the people ruling the countries were born and raised under the communist regime and try as you might, you will not have a fully democratic nation if half of it (if not more) has had a different system implanted since childhood through to adolescence.
not to mention, that quite a few of those countries still have strong ties with Russia and we all know how well democracy did not/does not work there.
" quite a few of those countries still have strong ties with Russia" - this exactly. Superpowers have always tried to influence nations to their point of view, be it peacefully, or by funding a propagnda campaign in some parts of the world. Unfortinately, Eastern Europe sits between the democratic west, Russian authoritarianism and the ghost of communism, which still haunts the memories and present of a significant amount of people in some places of the world.
@@Sim4oo Don't loose faith. A new Nation/Democracy can take two or even three generations to mature. All former Warsaw Pact and ex Soviet Countries are still learning to walk, it will take a little longer before they can run. Ireland (which I was surprised about) is now 98 years since we removed the English. There are less than 1,000 people alive today that were alive back then. So 99%+ have no memory of what the English did, nor do we have the interest in what happened back then as the same applies to them, 99%+ of them were not alive when all those things happened.
Best news for Eastern Europe will come when Vlad Vlad "Putler" steps down or is removed - which will allow the neighbours of Russia take a breath and progress to total freedom from the one person who really just wants to bring back the USSR, as this is what he remembers and reminisces over.
@@alanmcgowan3457
>>>are still learning to walk
Arrogance LOL
western conservatives are ignorant at first place. how could a kingdom counted as a democracy?? yes they have more functional and open society than most of 2nd and 3rd world countries but still it's a theocratic kingdom,and few snobby corporate-backed junks classified as an A- grade democracy.
Well from my study from Canada to Argentina they are part of the same continent, these are divided into three regions, North America (Canada, USA, Mexico), Central America (Guatemala to Panama), South America (Colombia to Argentina), Then it can also be divided by culture, Anglo Culture (USA, Canada) where they speak English, Latin Culture (Mexico to Argentina) speak Spanish, Portuguese and French
I don't understand how the middle east can be so red, I thought the US brought democracy there.
😂
Irak => Dark orange 😂 🤣
Saying that america brought order and democracy is delusional
@@Alwaysonhots-bu6lu It was sarcastic, God
@@Petitmoi74 you do realize your tone does not show through a screen, or that your way of writing it does not imply that it's sarcasm or that other people should recognize it?
We are all watching this video as if democracy (the conception of it) was a perfect and flawless system for running a country, but it's not like this. I think we have to evolve further politically still. I am surprised USA doesn't make it lower into the raking, their electoral process is far from democratic having only 2 parties viable to run for points, as each state only provides all its points to the most voted party there.
Well seeing as we arent a democracy, that makes sense (were a constitutional republic
Well considering the amount of participation in those parties are deeper than the multipolar party systems in other countries, it's obvious why it's not lower.
Its being compared to countries that have had communist leaders, authoritarian regimes, countries without basic civil liberties and countries where political freedom is supressed obviously America even with a flawed system will be highly rated
@@ciaranmcdougall8719 It's also being compared to multi-party democracies like Israel and Brazil. And it's still relatively highly ranked.
This ranking is biased in favor of labelling states with elected right wing demagogues as more “democratic” than the equivalent left wing ones. If the CIA likes you, you won’t ever be dark red.
I'd be nice if you would put the source for the data directly into your description so we can take a closer look if we want.
Interesting to have a discussion of the most democratic countries with _Preussens Gloria_ playing in the background.
7:35 Cape Verde does well, along with South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Ghana and Tunisia.
You forgot Mauritius
A Shark loves democratic countries!
Democracy is yes
Copycat
I love a shark
Where is the turtle ?
@@LarzGustafsson You are against capitalism AND democracy? Are you related to Stalin of something?
Democracy is impossible with capitalism. That"s it. How can you say you have democracy when you cant even say shit to your boss lol
Taiwan says HI!
Simple. Democracy is a political matter. Your inability to say shit your boss is an occupational matter in which he has the right to fire you being an ungrateful insubordinate.
Thanks for clarifing about India at 9:09
Now THIS is interesting!
Greetings from Canada!
Greetings from India a flawed democratic country
I notice Somalia is greyed out here. I honestly question whether they can truly be called a unified country right now, with all the war lords and instability.
Funny how the most democratic countries have a monarch
Its because the monarch does literaly nothing
@@Veriox22 Sure, just found it interesting, don't have a problem with the monarchy myself.
It's also worth pointing out that those countries are constitutional monarchies rather than absolute ones.
@@Michformer Yes I know
I noticed that, too. Funny, you would think that 'monarchy' and 'democracy' are mutually exclusive. And yet, here we are.
I love how the democratic republic of the Congo is the 2nd least democratic country
We hate this in Switzerland. We are only tenth because of low participation. But as a semi-direct democracy we vote on multiple issues 4 times a year. Votations are more important than elections (every 4 years). And most people do not go to the polls every 3 months...
Fascinating video, particularly the bit about the democratic deficit. It seems to me that statistic is about popular buy-in to their regime: homogeneous societies such as Saudi Arabia are going to have more tolerance for the regime which fits their cultures than diverse places such as the US, and the fact that Chileans perceive a bigger deficit than in actual fact may be to do with democracy giving them a bigger platform on which to criticise and scrutinise their own government. Poland and Hungary live right beside Germany and Austria, and have enough information about what goes on on the other side of the border to be envious. Indeed, it was the beginning of the information age which kickstarted the end of communism: the dissemination of easily accessible printing and video tapes, as well as TV broadcasting from the other side of the Berlin Wall, may well have hastened the end of the Cold War and be instrumental in resolving issues in the modern world.
The recent US and UK experience has shown me also that democracy actually does work. It used to be said that 'if voting changed anything, then they'd abolish it'. Although I didn't support either Trump or Brexit, it was interesting to see (and kinda reassuring) that democracy actually functioned and the people got what they voted for, however much it might have pained me. That so many people could challenge the outcome of both Trump (and then Biden) and Brexit without repercussions also made me feel I definitely do live in a democracy -- the process may be infuriating at times and not go the way I think it should go, but people have a voice and are using it.
I also pointed out when I wrote a paper on this for a university exam back at the LSE in 2001 that some global issues -- e.g. coronavirus -- need us to hold back popular will to get things done. In my paper I wrote that international response to environmental concerns necessarily had to involve nations giving up their sovereignty in order to abide by international agreements, and that this was actually preferable to complete autonomy within the world community. Likewise, I never thought I'd see the day that it was illegal for me to go and see my mother and that we had to meet at arm's length in a park (before BoJo brought in support bubbles, which was one of his best ideas as I was widowed last year at 40 and needed the support) but we have to sacrifice some democratic liberties to fight a global health problem. While I totally agree with the restrictions, I'm glad to live in a country where people can speak out even about trivial things like not being allowed to go on holiday rather than being totally muzzled. I may get annoyed by some opinions, but to be honest I prefer seeing that debate and discussion in the press than it being silenced completely.
4:05 - Nope, it's clearly Northern Europe
Switzerland is not in the north
TY 😊
This video is super interesting! I have two citizenships and have the right to vote in both. I really feel quite a difference btw one of the top ten countries and a country just a few places below..
wasn’t surprised that the US wasn’t in the top 10 most democratic.
Bruh we came so close to full democ, just bump us up a bit lol
Our democracy is inherently unrepresentative to most of the population with it being a representative system collectivizing people at a disadvantage or an advantage, leading to unfair results. We are no where near a perfect democracy, we aren’t even, by definition, a democracy, but rather a republic.
I don't want to be a full democracy, sounds like mob rule.
The writers of the US Constitution understood that above a certain level democracies tended to be unstable and prone to abuse, by having many distinct layers and levels of government that create a series of checks and balances it assures that although it may be unsightly to those that do not understand how or why it works the way it does it explains why the United States has had a single and remarkably stable republic while France has rotated through five, all of which have either been completely unsuccessful or were incredibly divisive and turbulent places such as the third and especially the fourth Republic.
@@KdubbleYT just saying that something needs to be changed is not good enough, prove that what you propose is better than the current Constitution.
“Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”
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The Supreme Comrade is the greatest democratic leader in the world!
Yes, that is our name. Best nation
Excellent
Nice video
Chile: brutal repression and people rising
France: tries to punish people for shraing videos of police brutality
This guys: Full democracy!!!!
The data is from last year chill
Don’t worry, soon, when the left takes the power, you’ll be as “Democratic” as Venezuela lol 😆
@@geografisica USA enemy: AuThoRiThAreAIn
France: destroying cars, shops, signs, buildings, throwing rocks on police and being mad for police brutality
@@geografisica you Nazis are obsessed with Venezuela
Musical background of the video : minute 5:00 you celebrated Swiss democracy "Sechseläuten" Thanks !
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As someone who lives in Poland I can confirm the truthfulness of this graph.
Możesz powiedzieć o co chodzi? Jakim cudem Polska nie jest demokratyczni? Pis może za dobry nie jest ale większość ludzi go wybrała więc jesteśmy demokratyczni według mnie.
@@hermes9042 Tu nie chodzi o to czy Polska jest demokratyczna czy nie ale o to co sądzą Polacy o poziomie demokracji w Polsce. Mówię że ten graf jest prawdziwy bo większość moich znajomych czy rodziny uważa że władza w Polsce nie jest w pełni demokratyczna. Dodatkowo sądzę że fakt że od 1795 roku byliśmy pod okupacją i walczyliśmy z władzą do praktycznie 1989 roku (II RP była państwem policyjnym więc nawet wtedy nie było mowy o "pełnej" demokracji) na duże znaczenie w sposobie postrzegania Polski przez Polaków.
Edit: If anyone wants me to translate everything above, this massage included, just ask for it and I'll do it.
@@michajakubowski9043 No tak, ale to jest na podstawie obecnej Polski a nie okupowanej i w moim pytaniu chodziło też o to czemu Polacy tak sądzą? Ja nie jestem za obecnym żądem ale polska jest w pełni demokratyczna według mnie.
democratic means Govts are elected by People.
Republic means Head of state is elected one (not Monarchy or inherited post).
In Britain, Head of state (Monarchy) is not elected one.
In USA it is.
In Britain, Govt (minister) is elected.
In USA too Govt is elected.
(In USA, head of Govt is also Head of State i.e., President, in Britain, it's not)
Britain is Democratic Monarchy.
USA is democratic Republic because Head of state i.e., in this case is President, is also head of government. So it's democratic (election for Govt) & Republic (election for President).
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Thank you! You too :)
@@General.Knowledge merry Christmas
The second least democratic country: the Democratic republic of congo.
Ironic.
And the least democratic country in the world: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
as a canadian i think it is important to be clear minded and fair, therefore i have to say that canada takes an L in the secction of term limits since it doesnt have one.
6:40 Is that Zürich's "Sechseläutenmarsch" playing in the background?
wht's about a video in which you show the national flags, that stayed the same or simmilar for zhe longest time for example austria red and white stripe from 1230 until today?
Yeah, just because of the "civil liberties" part you can say that the results are very off.
The fact that China isn’t in the bottom 10 is crazy
*bottom 15th
@@Maryo-wr7tv fair lol
Giving Ireland a 10 in civil liberties when its abortion policy is so regressive women travel to the UK for the procedure is an absolute joke
Your information is out of date. Abortion on demand is now legal in Ireland up to 12 weeks, which is the same as a majority of Western European countries. In fact, it is nominally more liberal than the UK's law, where abortion must be signed off by two doctors, where in Ireland it is truly at the discretion of the mother.
Abortion should be illegal
Limiting Murder (you call it abortion) certainly seems like support of civil liberties?
Abortion is not a civil liberty. Also, restrictions on abortion are not "regressive". Getting more restrictions passed is progress. Abortion is barbaric and the future is pro-life. Plus, more people are deprived of civil liberties if you allow abortion as you can't have any civil liberties if you've been killed.
@@jamesxenophon9505 Although you are correct that elective abortion in Ireland is legal, it shouldn't be.
*North Korea has entered the chat*
North Korea is banned
D E M O C R A T I C People's Republic of Korea
@@sriyasodharmma4021 Ok. I just realized that N. Korea's name means: People's power People's Republic of Korea.
@@thegoodgoat4653 lol
I am here
Liked video before watching because i already knew that it was perfect.
aynen :)
Merhaba
I can hear the march: triumph of winners playing, preobrazhensky march and some other russian marches in the background
When you say your country has an effective democracy but the Country that you rebelled from is more Democratic.
-- This post was made by the UK Gang.
Also applies to Ireland
@@mr.dappermarsh3213 what
The US should be more red, giving how often it likes to meddle in foreign elections, and staging coups against democratic government.
A whole country cannot be affected by a few blm and antifa lunatics.
@@alangervasis What is just said is completely unrelated to what I wrote.
This is about domestic policy, not foreign.
@@shauncameron8390 its same. Just look how deep state robbed elections.
You know the fact that you Americans can trash your own country so freely online is a sign of a strong democracy. We Brazilians dont have that luxury. Politicians often feel offended and try to sue civilians for the smallest of criticism
Love the video.
There is something extra I would like to share. The first parliament in history was in yemen. It is stated in Quran that queen Balques of Sheba had a council made up of advisors who helped her rule.
Electoral process and pluralism also has to do with how easy it is for people to vote (is voting made more difficult for certain groups) and who gets the right to vote (for instance do women have the right to vote).
How come Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and other -stans added to Central and Eastern Europe? I just checked the grouping. It makes no sense and it drags the average index down.
Look how stable Singapore is. They have some control over it and Singapore is the most stable country in the world. Democracy isn’t the best option in some places.
Democracy is a value in itself, at least from my, privileged western european perspective
Wonder what the world's democracy score would be if a certain PRC didn't exist, and China was governed under the ROC instead (especially under the original 1947 constitution, unamended)
AlternateHistoryHub made a video about what if the Nationalists won the Civil War. The result would pretty much be the same kind of one party authoritarian government, this time with the Kuomintang (they were actually quite authoritarian during their time). Cody posited that China as a whole is too large a country to govern without strong central rule so we can’t just copy paste Taiwan’s political history into this alternate China. But that’s according to him anyways.
Yeah South Korea and Taiwan have only been even remotely democratic for a little while
If under the original constitution, it would be a one-party military dictatorship. There is also another (unlikely) path which is that it’s like modern Taiwan, but with all of China.
South Korea in itself was not democratic at all till the 80s...same thing could be said if ROC won the civilwar then china would still be quite authoritarian.
@@spookyengie735 democracy is only for rich staple secure countries, if USA want to be a full democracy it has to abandon its power as world leading country
Drc: has democratic in their name
Also drc: is the 2nd least democratic country
This is a pretty old report. I have just downloaded a copy of the 2020 report, as I have with past reports for a number of years and these numbers are at least three years old. Things have changed.