<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Democracy_Index" class="extiw" title="w:en:Democracy Index">Democracy Index</a> as published in January, 2007. The palest blue countries get a score above 9.5 out of 10 (with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sweden" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sweden">Sweden</a> being the most democratic country at 9.88), while the black countries score below 2 (with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:North_Korea" class="extiw" title="w:en:North Korea">North Korea</a> being the least democratic at 1.03).
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2009-10-05
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