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I think they’re saying India represents 14% of the world population. That means that the delisting of India is most of the “20%” mentioned in the headline.

I think that 14% would make up a large percentage of the 80% not the 20.

India did decline by 4%. But, the headline 20% considers only the population of countries that are "Free". India gets excluded from that list, as far as I can see, because of its new "partly free" status. Hence the entire pop of India, or around 14% of global pop, is a contributor to the drop.

Presumably saying that India represents 14% of the world population. Recent look suggests it's 17%.

I think that was a ±14% drop in the number of people living in a free country now that India is relabeled