Democracy in Asia

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Democracy in Asia can be comparatively assessed^[1] according to various definitions of democracy.^[2] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices, the Asian countries with the highest democracy scores in year 2025 were Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Cyprus and Sri Lanka, meanwhile the Asian countries with lowest democracy scores in 2023 are Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Afghanistan.^[3] Democratic backsliding can be observed in parts of Asia.^[4] The V-Dem Democracy Report identified for the year 2025 Timor Leste, Thailand and Sri Lanka as a cases of ongoing democratization.

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Measures of democracy

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The table below shows Asian countries scored on V-Dem Democracy indices for year 2024.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Country	Democracy Indices		Democracy Component Indices
Country	Electoral	Liberal	Liberal	Egalitarian	Participatory	Deliberative
	0.82	0.73	0.9	0.94	0.56	0.9
	0.82	0.74	0.91	0.87	0.61	0.94
	0.8	0.7	0.89	0.88	0.8	0.86
	0.78	0.61	0.76	0.71	0.61	0.78
	0.74	0.55	0.71	0.58	0.56	0.7
	0.69	0.59	0.85	0.78	0.6	0.71
	0.66	0.5	0.75	0.58	0.62	0.54
	0.61	0.37	0.53	0.78	0.42	0.55
	0.57	0.46	0.79	0.81	0.55	0.9
	0.56	0.42	0.72	0.61	0.49	0.72
	0.54	0.42	0.76	0.66	0.43	0.83
	0.5	0.36	0.64	0.71	0.53	0.66
	0.46	0.3	0.56	0.45	0.57	0.74
	0.43	0.36	0.77	0.79	0.14	0.75
	0.42	0.31	0.67	0.49	0.33	0.35
	0.42	0.27	0.54	0.5	0.42	0.76
	0.39	0.29	0.64	0.31	0.56	0.54
	0.38	0.26	0.57	0.41	0.54	0.57
	0.37	0.22	0.48	0.41	0.49	0.62
	0.31	0.18	0.42	0.59	0.37	0.32
	0.3	0.18	0.42	0.26	0.47	0.43
	0.29	0.11	0.23	0.54	0.4	0.13
	0.28	0.27	0.76	0.56	0.31	0.74
	0.26	0.13	0.33	0.56	0.25	0.5
	0.22	0.08	0.19	0.44	0.2	0.45
	0.2	0.12	0.34	0.33	0.28	0.48
	0.18	0.05	0.12	0.24	0.15	0.22
	0.18	0.14	0.44	0.56	0.37	0.21
	0.17	0.05	0.13	0.39	0.1	0.07
	0.17	0.06	0.15	0.41	0.39	0.16
	0.16	0.1	0.32	0.5	0.1	0.28
	0.16	0.04	0.11	0.17	0.16	0.12
	0.15	0.03	0.08	0.27	0.08	0.06
	0.15	0.1	0.33	0.55	0.56	0.62
	0.14	0.06	0.19	0.43	0.16	0.18
	0.14	0.13	0.43	0.59	0.15	0.6
	0.14	0.11	0.36	0.38	0.4	0.18
	0.13	0.05	0.17	0.43	0.18	0.59
	0.13	0.04	0.12	0.09	0.23	0.11
	0.1	0.08	0.26	0.44	0.09	0.29
	0.08	0.01	0.03	0.34	0.15	0.02
	0.08	0.02	0.04	0.2	0.14	0.12
	0.07	0.04	0.14	0.29	0.12	0.23
	0.07	0.02	0.06	0.05	0.18	0.03
	0.03	0.09	0.35	0.39	0.13	0.47
	0.02	0.05	0.18	0.45	0.1	0.28

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