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V-Dem score is at 1976-emergency levels
India's V-Dem Liberal Democracy score in 2025, the latest observation, was 0.260. That is slightly below the 0.265 recorded in 1976, during the 1975-1977 Emergency, when civil liberties were formally suspended, and the lowest since 1950. The current score has been reached without a formal Emergency declaration.
What follows. India's V-Dem score fell to Emergency-era levels without any formal suspension of civil liberties.
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.