Introduction: A word from the team 4

Main finding 5

V-DEM in a nutshell 6

V-DEM Methodology 7

Section 1: State of the world 2018 10

V-Forecast: Predictiong adverse regime thranstions 27

Soptlight: Published research 29

Section 2: Threats to democracy in the digital age 34

Sustainable development goal 16: Tracking proggress with V-DEM data 38

Section 3: Exclution: a challenge to democracy 44

References 50

Appendix: Counrty scores for 2018 52