Nearly half (49%) the countries in Europe and Central Asia have seen declines in their scores over the last decade.
Over the last year alone, scores declined in 6 countries, while only 1 country’s score advanced.
In the last 10 years, countries in the region saw a combined advance of just 27 points, while declines in country scores totalled 287 points – nearly on a par with Asia and the Pacific, a region with a comparable number of countries where we saw the largest combined decline in expression regionally.
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