Updated : February 03, 2021 03:47 PM IST Three countries in Asia — Japan, South Korea and Taiwan — were upgraded to "full democracies." The EIU said the "democratic backsliding" authorities and "crackdowns" on civil liberties has led to a further decline in India’s ranking. share In the 2020 edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual Democracy Index, which provides a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide, India's score fell from a peak of 7.92 (on a scale of 0-10) in 2014 to 6.61 in 2020. The country’s global ranking dipped to 53 from 27. Meanwhile, three countries in Asia — Japan, South Korea and Taiwan — were upgraded to "full democracies", while Europe lost two — France and Portugal.