Post on 18-Apr-2022
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176
75
14
§
146
102
45
§
131
100
31
§
141
59
55§
151
13
52
§
142
71
31
§
63
20
84
§
72
14
96
§
127
88
62
45
COUNTRYForm of state
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Freedom Status:
Free
Partly free
Not free
least free most free
Freedom in the World Score (2018)Score from 0 to 100:
Press Freedom Index (2017)180 countries compared:
180 rank
rank
score
1
113 1
0 100
Rule of Law Index (2017-2018)113 countries compared:
§
124
64
63
180
3
93
170
12
ASIA’S DEMOCRATIC CRISISAll over the world, democracies are under pressure. In Asia, the situation is particularly bleak. Within all parameters – be it level of press freedom, political rights and civil liberties or the rule of law – there are very few bright spots. Most of the region can be found at the bottom of the rankings.
JAPAN
SOUTH KOREA
THAILAND
BANGLADESH
SRI LANKA
CHINA
CHINA
INDIA
SRI LANKA
PAKISTAN
MYANMAR
BANGLADESH
THAILAND
INDONESIA
MALAYSIA
LAOS
VIETNAM
CAMBODIA
SINGAPORE
MONGOLIA
RUSSIA
JAPAN
TAIWAN
PHILIPPINES
NORTH KOREA
SOUTH KOREA
INDONESIA
MYANMAR
Communist party-led state
Parliamentary republic
Parliamentary republic
Presidential republicPresidential republic
Constitutional monarchy
Parliamentary constitutional
monarchy
Presidential republic
Single-party state
PHILIPPINES
Presidential republic
Parliamentary republic
NORTH KOREA
§
132
30
112
CAMBODIAParliamentary constitutional monarchy
TAIWAN
Presidential Republic(claimed by China as province
of the People's Republic)
§
69
51
85
MONGOLIA
Presidential republic
§
144
45
53
MALAYSIA
Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
§
136
62
14
INDIAFederal parliamentary republic
§
175
74
20
VIETNAM
Communist state
§
139
105
43
PAKISTAN
Federal parliamentary republic
LAOS
Communist state
GERMANY
Parliamentary republic §
15
6
94
Comparison:
TEXT AND RESEARCH: BERNHARD BARTSCH, MARTIN GOTTSKE; INFOGRAPHICS: FRIEDERIKE VON POLENZ / INFOGRAPHICS GROUP; SOURCE: 2018 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX BY REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS; THE WJP RULE OF LAW INDEX 2017-2018 BY WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT; FREEDOM IN THE WORLD 2018 BY FREEDOM HOUSE