Is the Democracy score really data? It's just a presentation of scores made up by an advocacy group.

The "economic equality" measure is presented as something where a higher score is better, but I don't think that is true. A country where everyone had the exact same income no matter how they behave, how useful their skills are to society, or how hard they work would be a terrible place, in my opinion. Nobody would do a damn thing and so the "equal" income would be zero.