抱怨民主的健康状况听起来可能很抽象。但它的衰退表现在世界各地的战争、政变、有争议的选举以及对公民自由的限制上。
Grumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world.
我们的姊妹机构经济学人智库自2006年以来一直在追踪这种下滑趋势。
EIU, our sister organisation, has tracked that slide since 2006.
但其民主指数的最新更新表明这一趋势出现了温和的打破：在过去一年里，近四分之三国家的评分保持稳定或有所改善，全球指数上升了0.02分——这是2012年以来增幅最大的一次。
But the latest update to its democracy index suggests a modest break in the trend: the scores of nearly three-quarters of countries held steady or improved over the past year, and the global index rose by 0.02 points—one of the biggest increases since 2012.