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This article is about democracy in the region. For the book by Alexis de Tocqueville, seeDemocracy in America.

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TheDemocracy in the Americas can becompared^[1] according to the different definitions of democracy.^[2] The V-Dem Democracy indices considers countries in theAmericas with the highestdemocracy scores in 2023 asArgentina,Canada,Chile,Costa Rica,Uruguay,USA andJamaica and countries with lowest democracy scores asNicaragua,Cuba andVenezuela.^[3]Democratic backsliding can be observed in parts of the Americas.^[4]^[5]Democratization is reported byV-Dem Democracy Report 2024 in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Bolivia.^[3]

By country

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Measures of democracy

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The table below shows countries in the Americas scored on 2 high-levelV-Dem Democracy indices and 4 mid-level Democracy Component indices published in 2025 evaluating the state of democracy in year 2024.^[6]^[7]

V-Dem Democracy Indices
Country	Democracy Indices		Democracy Component Indices
Country	Electoral	Liberal	Liberal	Egalitarian	Participatory	Deliberative
Costa Rica	0.859	0.805	0.952	0.885	0.641	0.931
Uruguay	0.848	0.769	0.912	0.777	0.815	0.842
Chile	0.844	0.787	0.949	0.719	0.644	0.94
Canada	0.842	0.744	0.887	0.699	0.632	0.753
United States of America	0.84	0.748	0.89	0.667	0.655	0.884
Jamaica	0.803	0.684	0.848	0.787	0.604	0.731
Brazil	0.801	0.712	0.9	0.617	0.628	0.944
Barbados	0.786	0.67	0.848	0.842	0.298	0.926
Suriname	0.768	0.637	0.821	0.715	0.581	0.764
Trinidad and Tobago	0.755	0.627	0.826	0.786	0.582	0.925
Panama	0.726	0.584	0.794	0.576	0.524	0.737
Argentina	0.712	0.553	0.76	0.73	0.591	0.535
Dominican Republic	0.705	0.45	0.571	0.471	0.595	0.818
Colombia	0.701	0.557	0.779	0.528	0.634	0.645
Ecuador	0.651	0.446	0.639	0.366	0.754	0.442
Peru	0.634	0.493	0.761	0.509	0.604	0.405
Guatemala	0.597	0.469	0.768	0.327	0.594	0.594
Paraguay	0.579	0.388	0.618	0.312	0.516	0.458
Bolivia	0.576	0.314	0.461	0.593	0.628	0.473
Honduras	0.541	0.382	0.658	0.408	0.537	0.687
Mexico	0.505	0.251	0.397	0.438	0.617	0.423
Guyana	0.491	0.315	0.568	0.675	0.516	0.378
El Salvador	0.339	0.092	0.137	0.264	0.451	0.268
Haiti	0.218	0.079	0.192	0.128	0.259	0.592
Venezuela	0.197	0.049	0.101	0.263	0.492	0.023
Cuba	0.178	0.055	0.138	0.753	0.17	0.286
Nicaragua	0.153	0.019	0.022	0.271	0.295	0.017

References

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^Geissel, Brigitte; Kneuer, Marianne; Lauth, Hans-Joachim (2016)."Measuring the quality of democracy: Introduction".International Political Science Review.37 (5). Sage Publications:571–579.doi:10.1177/0192512116669141.ISSN 0192-5121.JSTOR 26556872.S2CID 151808737. Retrieved2023-04-03.
^Greenwood, Shannon (2022-12-06)."Appendix A: Classifying democracies".Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. Retrieved2022-12-27.
^^a ^bDemocracy Report 2024, Varieties of Democracy
^Hellinger, Daniel C. (2020).Comparative Politics of Latin America.doi:10.4324/9781003021865.ISBN 978-1-003-02186-5.
^Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Compilation of Selected Indices, Carla Y. Davis-Castro, Congressional Research Service, accessed 2023
^"Democracy Report 2025, 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped?"(PDF). Retrieved14 March 2025.
^"The V-Dem Dataset – V-Dem".V-Dem. V-Dem Institute. 2025. Retrieved14 March 2025.

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