Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “free” country

Re:Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “fr... by kasperni on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:24AM (#26399022)

Where do you get the 14% from? India went from a 71 score (2019) to a 67 score.

You can read more about the methodology here [1].

[1] https://freedomhouse.org/reports/freedom-world/freedom-world...

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Re:Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “fr... by swaits on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:29AM (#26399063)

I think they’re saying India represents 14% of the world population. That means that the delisting of India is most of the “20%” mentioned in the headline.

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Re:Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “fr... by dopamean on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @10:02AM (#26399430)

I think that 14% would make up a large percentage of the 80% not the 20.

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Re:Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “fr... by astatine on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:35AM (#26399127)

India did decline by 4%. But, the headline 20% considers only the population of countries that are "Free". India gets excluded from that list, as far as I can see, because of its new "partly free" status. Hence the entire pop of India, or around 14% of global pop, is a contributor to the drop.

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Re:Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “fr... by slindsey on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:27AM (#26399051)

Presumably saying that India represents 14% of the world population. Recent look suggests it's 17%.

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Re:Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “fr... by Lunrtick on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:27AM (#26399048)

I think that was a ±14% drop in the number of people living in a free country now that India is relabeled

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