It intends to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states. There is no clear understanding between Ethiopian scholar regarding economic development and democratization process in the country. The other scholar or writers argue that democracy can be enhanced after certain level of economic and social development. In fact, this is a re-upgrade for the former two, which suffered from the eurozone crisis many years ago. The questions are grouped into five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. [13], The following table gives the number and percentage of countries and the percentage of the world population for each regime type in 2018:[14]. To illustrate this point, over the past decade and more, two of the six critical Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been met – reducing child mortality and increasing access to sanitation. The Democracy Index has been criticised for lacking transparency and accountability beyond the numbers. Moldova was downgraded from a flawed democracy to a hybrid regime as a result of problematic elections. Today the share of the industrial sector and service sector growth dominated the national economy. These groups argue that the precondition for the consolidations of democratization practices in developing countries such as Sub Saharan African (SSA) Countries is economic development. Such debates were highly influenced by the political ideology or principle followed by the given person. The second sections explain the theoretical review of the economic development and democracy. Different political party has been involved in all election for the last two decades. Finally, the Democracy Index, rounded to two decimals, decides the regime type classification of the country. The federal[6] system gives legal right for local or regional administration in Ethiopia is based on the identity of the people in the country. In a few cases, an answer yielding zero for one question voids another question; e.g. There is not clear agreement on the relationship between economic development and democracy. However, the final report does not indicate what kinds of experts, nor their number, nor whether the experts are employees of the Economist Intelligence Unit or independent scholars, nor the nationalities of the experts. The third and fourth sections highlight the performances of economic development and democracy in Ethiopia. Such lack of clear understanding about economic development and democracy in the country hindered to see the broad performances and challenges of economic development and democracy in Ethiopia. The number of voter increased from 21.3 million in 1995 to 36.9 million in 2015. Most decision at the regional and local level was not done based on holistic study conducted at the region or local areas. Ethiopia is not coloured red on the World Press Freedom Index map for the first time since the five colours began being used in 2013. Most developed countries started democracy after economic development. The index was first published in 2006, with updates for 2008, 2010 and later years. Pre 1991 centuries of oppressive autocratic regimes have contributed to deeply rooted undemocratic political culture and generally submissive behavior of citizens vis a vis the state (Shimelis Kassa, 2015). Australia (ranked 8th) and Taiwan (ranked 33rd) both legalised same-sex marriage in 2017. Further pragmatic debate on economic development and democracy facilitate for the emergency of alternative ideas to speed up or accelerate the country social, economic and political transformation. 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The recent crisis in some part of the country in the name of democracy and freedom would damage the broad based social and economic development in the country. [3] In terms of HDI rank, Ethiopia was ranked 171 out of 174 countries[3] in 2000. A high propensity of a change of government is associated with uncertainty about the new policies of a potential new government; risk-averse economic agents may hesitate to take economic initiatives or may “exit” the economy, by investing abroad. This brief article consists of six sections including introduction. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorises each country into one of four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes. Ethiopia joined the U.N. Security Council in January and is one of the three African members … Asia was the region with the largest decline since 2016. Actually these people could not show any empirical evidence of the context of developing countries that achieve economic developments after building successful democratic system. It is obvious that the ruling party has played dominant role in the development of constitution and federal structure, but the forms and types of government decided by the constitution  not EPRDF’s  property. 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Likewise, there are a few questions considered so important that a low score on them yields a penalty on the total score sum for their respective categories, namely: The five category indices, which are listed in the report, are then averaged to find the Democracy Index for a given country. Ethiopia constitution also  includes all the principles of democracy such as free and fair election, rule of law, separation of power and judicial independence, participation of the people , citizen right , equality, accountability, economic freedom and multi party system.