Sri Lanka, Sept. 12 -- Sri Lanka has moved up 15 places in the 2025 Global Democracy Index compared to the previous year, according to the latest report by an intergovernmental democracy watchdog.

The Global State of Democracy 2025, published by the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), has analyzed democratic performance in 173 countries in 2024.

Sri Lanka is ranked 58th in this year's report with a score of 0.655 having jumped up 15 places from the previous year with only Botswana (20) and Mauritius (23) having made higher gains in the year-on-year rankings.

"Sri Lanka performs in the mid-range across all four categories of the Global State of Democracy Framework and is among the top 2...