Democracy Disappearing in the World - Freedom Declines for 17 Years

The share of the world living under democracy (where people vote for their leaders) has dropped to 29%, down from 54% back in the year 2000. That's the lowest number since roughly 1950, as monitored by Freedom House. But why did freedoms begin disappearing from the earth somewhere around the year 2006? After 1,000 years, the heritage of freedom brought to the world by the Christianized West is finally disappearing. We discuss the various types of economic and political freedoms and provide a strata of priority freedoms for which we still need to fight.