Join the Business Day Dialogues, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, on October 14 for this discussion
Join the Business Day Dialogues, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, on October 14 for a discussion on encouraging voters to take part in the polls. Picture: BLOOMBERG/WALDO SWIEGERS
What defines the health of a nation? Is it the size of the GDP or the Gini coefficient? The level of unemployment, of education, or the value of the minimum wage? Homelessness, crime statistics, gender-based violence, female enablement, minority empowerment or religious tolerance? While these are all strong indicators, nothing is more telling about the national morale than the enthusiasm with which people embrace the privilege of voting in democratic elections.
“Worldwide, voter turnout started to decline in the early 1990s from a global average of 76% of registered voters to 66% by 2015, despite an increase in the global voter population and the spread of electoral democracy,” the paper states.
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