Czechia rises in The Economist's democracy ranking

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, which publishes the weekly newspaper The Economist, has increased Czechia's ranking in its 2022 Democracy Index by four places compared to 2021.

The index measures the state of democracy in 167 countries and territories around the world by giving them a score and dividing them into four categories — full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes. Czechia is classed as a "democracy with flaws", but has the highest score out of this group of countries together with Greece.

Czechia improved its ranking to 25th place and received a score of 7.97, where a score higher than eight is required to move to the "full democracy" classification.