Out Now! Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? [pdf]
https://www.v-dem.net/documents/60/V-dem-dr__2025_lowres.pdf![]()
The report has been published annually since 2017. Each report has a focus topic and a "Country Scores" section that indicates how democratic countries around the world are considered to be. In recent years, there have also been increasing analyses of autocracies, which get compared to democracies.
The V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy Project) aims at conceptualising and measuring democracy. V-Dem distinguishes between five overarching democratic principles: electoral, liberal, participation, deliberation and egalitarian principles. It collects data to measure them. The data collected is used for publications, statistics, graphics and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]
Release date: 18.03.2025
Update: 18.03.2025
Thematic context
News worldwide
- Trump's attacks on US universities: Science under pressure (DLF 31.03.26) [courtesy translation]
- The new UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2026 (GEM Report) has been published
- New on Education Worldwide: Social media ban – In which countries?
- New publication "The Education World Champions" - Singapore: The Art of Adaptive Teaching (German School Portal 19.02.26) [courtesy translation]
- UNHCR Education Report 2025