Declining support for Latin American democracy

Rejection of democracy has increased across Latin America, according to a biannual survey. In 2008, for example, people in Venezuela gave democracy a very positive average score of .16 on a scale of 0 to 1, where 0 is total support for democracy and 1 is total rejection. By 2016/2017, dislike of democracy in Venezuela had increased to .35.

Views on democracy (0=democracy is very good; 1=democracy is very bad)

0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

Mexico

0.32

0.44

Paraguay

0.37

0.44

Guatemala

0.39

0.43

Honduras

0.4

0.43

Haiti

0.33

0.43

Peru

0.34

0.42

Brazil

0.3

0.42

Ecuador

0.35

0.41

Colombia

0.27

0.4

El Salvador

0.32

0.4

Bolivia

0.29

0.39

Jamaica

0.26

0.39

Nicaragua

0.27

0.38

Panama

0.28

0.37

Dominican Republic

0.25

0.36

Venezuela

0.16

0.35

Chile

0.3

0.35

Costa Rica

0.22

0.28

Argentina

0.13

0.22

Uruguay

0.15

0.19

2008|

2016/17|