This question will use The Economist's Democracy Index, resolving YES for any region whose average democracy score is lower in the next report (to be published in early 2024) compared to the last report (which can be found here).

For easy reference, here is a table of regional democracy scores since 2006, taken from the last report:

Here is a visualization of country scores included in the last report as well:

For any region whose average democracy score for 2023 is the same or higher, this question resolves NO.

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