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India and Hungary are now travelling the same road
On the V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index, Hungary fell from 0.521 in 2014 to 0.315 in 2025 and India from 0.488 to 0.260. The two began the period within 0.04 of each other and both ended near 0.3. India's fall of 0.228 points is slightly larger than Hungary's 0.206. V-Dem's latest observation is for 2025.
What follows. Hungary's score fell by a similar amount over the same years, and both countries continued to hold competitive elections.
One of 37 readings of the dataset. Data vintage 2026-10-19. Cite as Raman, V.S., Some Perspective: India's Political Economy, 2004-2026, someperspective.info, CC BY 4.0.