Only 31% of Poles believe that they live in democratic country
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Although 86 percent of Poles claim that democracy is important, less than a third recognize Poland as a democratic country, according to the Democracy Perception Index report.
The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) is the world's largest annual democracy survey, conducted by the Latana research institute and the Alliance of Democracies foundation to monitor attitudes towards democracy in 53 countries around the world.
This year's report shows that 81 percent of citizens from the surveyed countries are convinced that democracy is important, but only one in two says that they live in a truly democratic country.
The following countries consider their countries to be the most democratic: the Danes (77 percent), the Swiss (75 percent), and the Norwegians (71 percent). In turn, only 31 percent of Poles believe that their country is democratic. This is a drop from 39 percent in 2019 when this question was first asked, and 38 percent in 2020. Of all the countries surveyed this year, only Venezuela (25 percent), Iran (28 percent), and Hungary (30 percent) have lower results than Poland.
Over 53,000 respondents from 53 countries around the world took part in the survey, representing 75 percent of the world's population.
