Nations in Transit 2019
Poland
Consolidated Democracy
67
100
| DEMOCRACY-PERCENTAGE Democracy Percentage | 67.26 100 |
| DEMOCRACY-SCORE Democracy Score | 5.04 7 |
Last Year's Democracy Percentage & Status
68
100
Consolidated Democracy
The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a given year. The Democracy Percentage, introduced in 2020, is a translation of the Democracy Score to the 0-100 scale, where 0 equals least democratic and 100 equals most democratic.
See the methodology.
- Civil Society score declined from 6.00 to 5.75. A January law introduced a new criminal offence: disparaging the good name of Poland by wrongly attributing responsibility for WWII-era atrocities. However, after critics condemned the law as a violation of free expression rights, the offense was decriminalized in June. Meanwhile, the government escalated its legal and rhetorical attacks on the LGBT community.
- Corruption score declined from 4.50 to 4.25. After the opposition revealed that the government’s ministers awarded themselves massive bonuses last year, the ministers neglected to return the money to the state, donating it to a charity run by the Catholic Church instead. In November, Polish Financial Supervision Authority chair Marek Chrzanowski arrested after soliciting a bribe from a major bank.
Country Facts
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Global Freedom Score
81 100 free