Guyana remains flawed democracy, falls two points

Guyana ranks 67 and remains a flawed democracy, falling two points on the world global democracy index where some 167 countries were analyzed, the 2022 Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report states.

Rating the state of democracy across 167 countries where the maximum score is 10 and on the basis of five measures —electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties- Guyana had an overall score of 6.34. It fellow below Trinidad at 7.16, Jamaica at 7.13 and Suriname at 6.95.