Monitoring and analysing the global state of democracy

The Global State of Democracy Initiative provides timely, cutting-edge data and analysis to help stakeholders create informed and targeted interventions, to understand democratic deterioration, and to capitalize on and learn from successes. For the release of the fifth edition of its flagship Global State of Democracy Report in November 2023, International IDEA convened experts and policymakers in discussions on safeguarding democratic political institutions. The Report has been covered in nearly 1,000 news articles in some 100 countries, including high-profile outlets such as The New York Times, the BBC and the Financial Times.

Recent Global State of Democracy Reports have informed processes from high-level interventions at the Summit for Democracy to national parliamentary research, and they have fed into analysis published by the European External Action Service, the UN Development Programme, the World Bank, The Economist, and many of the world’s most influential and widely read news outlets. The data and analysis provided in Global State of Democracy Reports have been invoked by leaders to highlight the importance of election observation, to call for coordinated action through deliberative democracy and citizens’ assemblies, to take stock of domestic democratic reforms and progress, and to explore legislation to expand LGBTQIA+ rights protections.

Additionally, audiences from the UN Headquarters in New York, the European Parliament, foreign ministries, the CIVICS Innovation Hub and the Robert Bosch Stiftung all learned about the Democracy Tracker and how to use the new tool.