DQI combines the V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index, Freedom House, the RSF rank and the V-Dem Core Civil Society Index via a geometric mean — so weakness in any single dimension pulls the composite down. It has fallen from 0.49 (2014) to 0.29 (2026), against a UPA-decade average of 0.57. The steepest single-year falls come after 2019.
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This is one of 37 standing analyses drawn from the Some Perspective dataset. It is not dated commentary: it describes a relationship in the data that holds across the series, and it is regenerated whenever the underlying dataset is refreshed. The figures quoted here reflect the 2026-08-15 data vintage.