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This article is about democracy in the region. For the book by Alexis de Tocqueville, see Democracy in America.
Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in the Americas for 2024

The Democracy in the Americas can be compared[1] according to the different definitions of democracy.[2] The V-Dem Democracy indices considers the Americas with the highest democracy scores in 2023 as Argentina, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay, USA and Jamaica and countries with lowest democracy scores as Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela.[3] Democratic backsliding can be observed in parts of the Americas.[4][5] Democratization is reported by V-Dem Democracy Report 2024 in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Bolivia.[3]

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Measures of democracy

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The table below shows countries in the Americas scored on 2 high-level V-Dem Democracy indices and 4 mid-level Democracy Component indices published in 2025 evaluating the state of democracy in year 2024.[6][7]

V-Dem Democracy Indices
Country Democracy Indices Democracy Component Indices
Electoral Liberal Liberal Egalitarian Participatory Deliberative
 Costa Rica 0.859 0.805 0.952 0.885 0.641 0.931
 Uruguay 0.848 0.769 0.912 0.777 0.815 0.842
 Chile 0.844 0.787 0.949 0.719 0.644 0.94
 Canada 0.842 0.744 0.887 0.699 0.632 0.753
 United States of America 0.84 0.748 0.89 0.667 0.655 0.884
 Jamaica 0.803 0.684 0.848 0.787 0.604 0.731
 Brazil 0.801 0.712 0.9 0.617 0.628 0.944
 Barbados 0.786 0.67 0.848 0.842 0.298 0.926
 Suriname 0.768 0.637 0.821 0.715 0.581 0.764
 Trinidad and Tobago 0.755 0.627 0.826 0.786 0.582 0.925
 Panama 0.726 0.584 0.794 0.576 0.524 0.737
 Argentina 0.712 0.553 0.76 0.73 0.591 0.535
 Dominican Republic 0.705 0.45 0.571 0.471 0.595 0.818
 Colombia 0.701 0.557 0.779 0.528 0.634 0.645
 Ecuador 0.651 0.446 0.639 0.366 0.754 0.442
 Peru 0.634 0.493 0.761 0.509 0.604 0.405
 Guatemala 0.597 0.469 0.768 0.327 0.594 0.594
 Paraguay 0.579 0.388 0.618 0.312 0.516 0.458
 Bolivia 0.576 0.314 0.461 0.593 0.628 0.473
 Honduras 0.541 0.382 0.658 0.408 0.537 0.687
 Mexico 0.505 0.251 0.397 0.438 0.617 0.423
 Guyana 0.491 0.315 0.568 0.675 0.516 0.378
 El Salvador 0.339 0.092 0.137 0.264 0.451 0.268
 Haiti 0.218 0.079 0.192 0.128 0.259 0.592
 Venezuela 0.197 0.049 0.101 0.263 0.492 0.023
 Cuba 0.178 0.055 0.138 0.753 0.17 0.286
 Nicaragua 0.153 0.019 0.022 0.271 0.295 0.017

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References

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  1. ^ Geissel, Brigitte; Kneuer, Marianne; Lauth, Hans-Joachim (2016). "Measuring the quality of democracy: Introduction". International Political Science Review. 37 (5). Sage Publications: 571–579. doi:10.1177/0192512116669141. ISSN 0192-5121. JSTOR 26556872. S2CID 151808737. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ^ Greenwood, Shannon (2022-12-06). "Appendix A: Classifying democracies". Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  3. ^ a b Democracy Report 2024, Varieties of Democracy
  4. ^ Hellinger, Daniel C. (2020). Comparative Politics of Latin America. doi:10.4324/9781003021865. ISBN 978-1-003-02186-5.
  5. ^ Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Compilation of Selected Indices, Carla Y. Davis-Castro, Congressional Research Service, accessed 2023
  6. ^ "Democracy Report 2025, 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped?" (PDF). Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  7. ^ "The V-Dem Dataset – V-Dem". V-Dem. V-Dem Institute. 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
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