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Please somebody update the information according to the 2014 calculations! thank you

Is this

Population density? Jiawhein (talk) 01:28, 18 August 2013 (UTC) →no.83.10.15.48 (talk) 15:28, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Australia and New Zealand on par with Saudi Arabia?

are there more obvious errors?83.10.15.48 (talk) 15:28, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to the map, they are not "on a par". Australia and New Zealand are colored dark green, "full democracies" at 9.00 - 10.00, along with Canada, Norway, Sweden and Finland, while Saudi Arabia is colored dark red, "authoritarian regimes" at 0.00 - 1.99. Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:43, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Someone please fix the colors here

I would if I knew how. On my screen no country is a "perfect democracy" (that may be) and yellow doesn't exist. I'm sure this is an error. Pick some different colors instead of extremely similiar greens. 79.136.64.95 (talk) 20:49, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed it by reverting changes today to commons:File:Democracy Index 2012 green and red.svg. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:11, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

By country?

I expected this article to show the ranking by country, as it has in the past, and as it still does in some other languages. The lack lessens the article. Why has this been removed? Star Lord - 星王 (talk) 21:30, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is a list by country as part of List of freedom indices. -Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 00:16, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
There was a "by country" list in the article until 22 August 2012. The list was removed due to a "copyright issue" at 7:57 on 22 August 2012. The list was restored and then removed again several times from August to December 2012. I added a new country list at 8:34 on 27 March 2013. My change was reverted at 11:02 later that same day due to copyright concerns. There is a long discussion of this under "Possible copyvio" on the talk page archive. -Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 01:32, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Democracy Index needs refinement

The following comment was entered at the top of the article by Hardtruths (talk, contribs) at 17:18 on 1 August 2014‎ and quickly reverted. I'm entering it here for the record. -Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 02:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Democracy Index needs refinement. For example, the rule of law should be given more weight. Knowing Canada and how Anglosaxon countries, the US is no longer in this category, it makes no sense to place Spain at the same level of the UK, no matter how many more "democratic" laws Spain may have on its books. Laws in Spain are not applied anywhere near the rigor of the UK.


Russia?

Can it be that the Index is faulty? According to the current Index Pakistan, a country in which the Sharia is the Base of Law and Politics, is more democratic than Russia. I actually doubt it.--95.114.10.42 (talk) 16:24, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's what the source says. It is not Wikipedia that has come up with the scores. Bevo74 (talk) 16:55, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Pakistan is actually a Pseudo-Democarcy, that is ruled by a quasi-feudalistic Oligarchy of Large Landowner Clans and Islamic Fundamentalists. I just ask myself how this State can be semi-democractic?--77.2.177.111 (talk) 19:40, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Pakistan has an overall score of 4.57 which is in the lower part of hybrid regimes. I don't know much about Pakistan but below are all the scores from "Democracy Index 2012" [1]. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:27, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Rank Overall score Electoral process and pluralism Functioning of government Political participation Political culture Civil liberties
108 4.57 5.58 5.36 2.22 4.38 5.29
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