Global Survey on Democracy Delivers Sobering Results
The Open Society Barometer, an annual global survey from Open Society Foundations launched on September 12, 2023, reflects the positive and negative aspects of the state of democracy worldwide.
The survey found that young people around the world - Generation Z, those born between 1996-2010, and millennials, those born in the early 1980s and the late 1990s - "hold the least faith in democracy of any age group, presenting a grave threat to its future".
The recent epidemic of coups in Africa, including military take-overs in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Gabon, has triggered the inevitable question: Is multi-party democracy on the retreat?