Bangladesh ranks 92nd with an overall score of 5.43, way behind India that holds the 42nd spot on the Democracy Index 2017. In the 2017 Democracy Index, not a single region recorded an improvement in its average score compared with 2016. All the other six regions experienced a regression, as signified by a decline in their regional average score. This is the tenth edition of the Democracy Index, which began in 2006. Norway once again tops the Democracy Index global ranking in 2017.

Source: bd News24 January 31, 2018 06:45 UTC