New Zealand was the world’s second most democratic country in 2021, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) says in its annual Democracy Index.
That was an improvement from fourth place the year before, with New Zealand considered to have become more democratic during 2021.
The country considered most democratic was Norway, with the four places after New Zealand taken by the Nordic countries Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark.
Australia 9th-equal, Canada 12th, and the UK 18th. The US is in 26th place and isn’t even described as a full democracy
