Democracy has declined globally for nearly two decades, with autocracies now outnumbering democracies and the majority of humanity living under autocratic rule — weakening rights, raising conflict and corruption risk, and degrading collective capacity to solve other global problems.
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After decades of expansion, democracy has been in global retreat, with autocracies now governing the majority of humanity. This founding report documents the scale and mechanisms of democratic backsliding, examines why external interventions so often fail, and surveys the contested but important set of levers — from anti-corruption to information integrity — for defending democratic institutions.
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