EIU Democracy Index: Mozambique ranked 115th; Cape Verde leads CPLP

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EIU Democracy Index: Mozambique ranked 115th; Cape Verde leads CPLP

1:31 CAT | 01 Feb 2018

EIU Democracy Index 2017

Cape Verde maintained this year’s leadership of Portuguese-speaking countries in the EIU Democracy Index released every year by The Economist, occupying 23rd place among the 167 countries analysed, three positions ahead of Portugal and 26 ahead of Brazil.

In an index that does not include São Tomé and Príncipe, The Economist Intelligence Unit, under the theme “Freedom of Expression Under Attack,” considers Cape Verde, Portugal, Timor-Leste and Brazil “flawed democracies”, while Mozambique sits in the lower threshold of “hybrid regimes”, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea appearing as “authoritarian”.

The index takes into account five main indicators – electoral process and pluralism, government functioning, political participation, political culture and civil liberties.

None of the states analysed were able to obtain the maximum of 10 points. Norway (9.87), Iceland (9.58) and Sweden (9.39) took the top three places, Cape Verde was credited with 7.88 (23rd overall), Portugal with 7.84 (26th), Timor-Leste with 7.19 (43rd) and Brazil with 6.86 (49th).

Mozambique gets 4.02 points (115th) overall, and is the last of the hybrid regimes (above 4.00), ahead of the “authoritarian” Angola (3.62 points – 125th place), Guinea-Bissau (1.98 – 157) and Equatorial Guinea (1.81 – 161). Behind Equatorial Guinea, and to the end of the index, there are only six other states – Turkmenistan (1.72 points), Democratic Republic of Congo (1.61), Central African Republic (1.52), Chad (1.50 ), Syria (1.43) and North Korea (1.08).

Among the Portuguese-speaking countries, and ranked by indicators, Cape Verde has rates ranging from 9.17 points (electoral process and pluralism) to 6.67 (political participation).

Portugal has 9.58 points (electoral process and pluralism) and 6.11 (political participation), Timor-Leste between 9.08 (electoral process and pluralism) and 5.56 (political participation) and Brazil between 9.58 (electoral participation and pluralism) and 5.00 (political culture).

Mozambique’s best results is 5.00 points, both in political participation and in the political culture, but only 2.14 or the functioning of government.

Angola varies between 5.56 points for political participation and 1.75 for its electoral process and pluralism, while Guinea-Bissau has a maximum of 3.13 for political culture and 0.00 for the functioning of government. Equatorial Guinea also scored 0.00, but in the electoral process and pluralism, its highest score being 4.38 for political culture.