ARMENIA APPEARS IN THE GROUP OF HYBRID COUNTRIES
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
01 Nov 08
Armenia
The research group of the British `Economist’ periodical has published
the `Democracy Index-2008′ report. In the list of the countries
included in the paper, Armenia ranks as the 113rd state. In 2007, it
ranked as the 117th state.
In the 2008 report, 30 countries are estimated as democratic. According
to the research, 14 percent of the world’s population lives in fully
democratic states. In 50 countries, in which 35 percent of the world’s
population lives, democracy is considered fragile. There are 36
countries in the group of the hybrid regime (Armenia being one of
them), with 15 percent of the world’s population living in them. As to
the authoritarian countries, 34 percent of the population of the planet
lives in this group of states.