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On 18 May 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Democracy Index to EIU Democracy Index. The result of the discussion was moved.

Too many years[edit]

There are currently 15 (!) years represented on the first two tables, including for every single country. That's about 3,000 data points. Theoretically, a table on wikipedia should be just as readable as regular prose.

The tables currently can't even be searched without planning ahead: go to the top for what year you want to read and then go to the bottom to scroll to the right as much as you need, and then scroll up to find the country you want... after remembering to sort correctly so you can find it...

Perhaps just a few (two or three) landmark years could be kept. Or maybe the historical tables could go altogether, as the "Components" section does everything much more elegantly. Wizmut (talk) 13:03, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I guess nobody wanted to remove data when adding new years. I agree that fifteen years is far too much, but we might want to keep the last ten because that gives a good view on the recent evolution of each country. Gorpik (talk) 13:51, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If there's really any interesting trends to be found, they should be plucked out and written down as prose.

Ten years still leaves a lot of mystery as to why each number on the page. Wikipedia is not a database, so it's up to editors to find the interesting data points and spell them out.

A table of (current year), (current year - 5) and (current year - 10) would probably catch most of the trends. Wizmut (talk) 14:07, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest taking a similar approach to how older scores were handled on the Corruption Perceptions Index page when the 2022 scores were added. TheRichCapitalist (talk) 07:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree; I think it's a good idea to make separate tables for every half-decade or full decade. DarkMatterRealm2 (talk) 13:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd say 2006–2015 should go in one row, 2016–2025 (for now, 2016–2023) should go in the next row, and so on. TheRichCapitalist (talk) 17:40, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kosovo[edit]

The map shows Kosovo as a hybrid regime (yellow), yet the Economist Intelligence Unit does not rank Kosovo at all. Peetel (talk) 08:36, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It never did after looking at revision history 48JcL48 (talk) (contribs) 22:18, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was fixed in file history. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Economist_Intelligence_Unit_Democracy_Index_2023.svg Peetel (talk) 12:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh i see it 48JcL48 (talk) (contribs) 00:40, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mexico is North America tmk[edit]

I've always learnt that Mexico is North America, but in this article it's listed as Latin America. 62.45.42.33 (talk) 15:11, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article follows the criteria of the Economist Democracy Index. You may disagree with it, but it is not for the article to challenge it. Gorpik (talk) 19:35, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In the last table of the page: "Components Year 2023", column "Changes in score" in the line for the country "Chile" the quantity seems right (0.24) but the arrow UP seems wrong, because according to the previous table Chile's score went DOWN from 8.22 (in 2022) to 7.98 (in 2023) 2804:14C:60:9811:B68D:B8B5:4F72:C88F (talk) 17:12, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Good catch, I doubled checked the citation and the score indeed fell from 8.22 to 7.98. The arrow now shows that the score decreased, thanks. Jamedeus (talk) 21:42, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]