| This list is highly suspect. IDEA claims that South Africa has had only one election since 1945, which is simply not true. There were general elections with universal suffrage in 1994, 1999 and 2004. There were another twelve whites-only elections between 1948 and 1989 inclusive. The whites-only elections in South Africa are excluded from the statistics but the men-only elections in Switzerland before 1971 are included. What gives? Somalia, on the other hand, was a military dictatorship from 1969 to at least 1991 and, since then has been in a state of civil war and had no effective government. For a long time, the majority of the population was under the control of the Islamic Courts Union, who were strongly against the idea of democracy. Overall, IDEA claims that six out of these top ten `democratic' countries have had only one or two elections since 1945. |
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