I find it hilarious that "democracy" has declined over the years it has been touted as ascendant!
But, for 2022 it is also hilarious that Statista hasn't come to the realization yet that there needs to be a new category called "Nominally free but degrading rapidly to mostly unfree". Fitting this new category would be pretty much all of the "free" nations in North America, South America (Brazil has been taken over by corrupt communists for God's sake!), Europe (Hungarians are more free than so-called free!), Africa and Pacific nations. Cannot speak for Mongolia...but must suck being stuck between China & Russia, poor bastards.
