Year 2020 Rank Region Countries Authoritarian Hybrid regime Flawed democracy Full democracy Average score 1 North America 2 0 0 1 1 8.58 2 Western Europe 21 0 1 7 13 8.29 3 Latin America and the Caribbean 24 3 5 13 3 6.09 4 Asia and Australasia 28 7 6 10 5 5.62 5 Central and Eastern Europe 28 7 8 13 0 5.36 6 Sub-Saharan Africa 44 24 13 6 1 4.16 7 Middle East and North Africa 20 16 2 2 0 3.44 World 167 57 35 52 23 5.37