Data from these four different sources are then combined to rate each country as ‘open’, ‘narrow’, ‘constrained’, ‘repressed’ or ‘closed’.
This year, almost a third of humanity, or 30.6 percent of the global population, lives in these ‘closed’ countries, the highest percentage recorded by Civicus Monitor since its first report in 2018.
Meanwhile, only 2.1 percent of people live in ‘open’ countries, where civic space is both free and protected, the lowest percentage ever and about half the rate six years ago. Overall, these figures point to a world in trouble.