Demography Roundup #10
The global "democratic recession" continues + a surprising trend in cancer rates and growing momentum behind cell phone bans.
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#1: In 2022, democratic backsliding continued for the sixth year in a row.
For much of the past decade, indexes tracking the state and quality of democracy around the world have uniformly painted a bleak picture of declining democracy and fewer freedoms. (See “Democracy Keeps Declining Worldwide.”) The latest Global State of Democracy re…