Which regions will become more authoritarian in 2025?
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YESAsia and Australasia
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YESEastern Europe and Central Asia
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NOLatin America and the Caribbean
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NOMiddle East and North Africa
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NONorth America
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NOSub-Saharan Africa
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NOWestern Europe
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 2025) compared to the last report (which can be found here).
For easy reference, here is a table of regional democracy scores 2006-2023:

For any region whose average democracy score for 2025 is the same or higher, this question resolves NO.
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@Qoiuoiuoiu Wikipedia seems to have gotten it wrong.

See the first line ('unchanged') and the last chart bar ('4.00').
@Hakari @cash @Qoiuoiuoiu this seems to be the only one where things are off, with two regions having scores that are .01 different than wiki, but only sub Sahara results being directionally wrong

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