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Mongolia [b] is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 square miles), with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state.
The politics of Mongolia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary system with a multi-party representative democracy. [1] While some sources have incorrectly described Mongolia as a semi-presidential system , its 1992 Constitution clearly defines it as a parliamentary republic.
According to the ranking, democracy consists of six dimensions (one political, five non-political), with different weights for the overall quality of democracy. Their weights are distributed accordingly: politics (or the political system) 50%; gender (gender equality in socioeconomic and educational terms) 10%; economy (or the economic system) 10%;
Democracy in Mongolia is in a transition phase, said Tsenguun, who at 27 is the youngest member of a new parliament sworn in this week. “We are trying to figure out what democracy actually means ...
Mongolia established diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom on 23 January 1963. [58] Mongolia maintains an embassy in London. The United Kingdom is accredited to Monglia through its embassy in Ulaanbaatar. [59] Both countries share common membership of the International Criminal Court, and the World Trade Organization.
In mid-March 2018, president Khaltmaagiin Battulga appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump via telegram to more trade relations, saying an economic downturn threatened to destabilize Mongolia, and that although Mongolia is an "oasis of democracy", this "does not contribute to economic development" in a region where authoritarianism (China and Russia) in on the rise.
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Investment analyst Peter Tasker has criticised the Democracy Index for lacking transparency and accountability beyond the numbers. To generate the index, the Economist Intelligence Unit has a scoring system in which various experts are asked to answer 60 questions and assign each reply a number, with the weighted average deciding the ranking.