Number of liberal democracies by age
Liberal democracies are understood here as political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections, and their citizens have furtherindividual rights, are equal before the law, and the legislative and the courts constrain the executive. Based on the classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) andthe estimates by V-Dem’s experts.
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- Access to justice for menRegimes of the World
- Access to justice for womenRegimes of the World
- Age of democracyBoix et al.
- Age of democracyBoix et al., including women's right to vote
- Age of democracyPolity
- Age of electoral democracyRegimes of the World
- Age of electoral democracyLexical Index
- Age of liberal democracyRegimes of the World
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- Child mortality rate vs. electoral democracy
- Citizen satisfaction with democracy
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- Civil liberties ratingFreedom House
- Civil liberties scoreFreedom House
- Civil rights scoreBTI
- Civil society participation indexV-Dem
- Common good justifications scoreV-Dem
- Competitive electionsLexical Index
- Competitiveness of executive recruitment scorePolity
- Competitiveness of political participation scorePolity
- Constraints on the executive scorePolity
- Countries that are democracies and autocraciesRegimes of the World
- Countries that are democracies and autocraciesRegimes of the World, including ambiguous regimes
- Countries that are democracies and autocraciesLexical Index
- Countries that are democracies and autocraciesBTI
- Countries that are democracies and non-democraciesBoix et al.
- Countries that are democracies and non-democraciesBoix et al., including women's right to vote
- Countries that are democracies and non-democraciesFreedom House
- Countries that are democracies and non-democraciesPolity
- Countries that are democracies and non-democraciesEIU
- Countries that are democratizing and autocratizingEpisodes of Regime Transformation
- Countries that are democratizing and autocratizingEpisodes of Regime Transformation, within regimes
- Countries that are long-standing democraciesBoix et al.
- Countries that are long-standing democraciesBoix et al., including women's right to vote
- Countries that are long-standing democraciesPolity
- Countries that are long-standing electoral democraciesRegimes of the World
- Countries that are long-standing electoral democraciesLexical Index
- Countries that are long-standing liberal democraciesRegimes of the World
- Countries that are long-standing polyarchiesLexical Index
- Countries with universal right to vote
- Deliberative democracy indexV-Dem
- Deliberative democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
- Deliberative political institutions indexV-Dem
- Democracy indexPolity
- Democracy indexPolity, weighted by population
- Democracy indexEIU
- Democracy indexEIU, weighted by population
- Democracy index by source
- Democratic culture indexEIU
- Democratic electoral institutionsFreedom House
- Democratic featuresBTI
- Democratic featuresBTI, weighted by population
- Direct popular voting indexV-Dem
- Distribution of deliberative democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
- Distribution of deliberative democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of democracy indexPolity, weighted by population
- Distribution of democracy indexEIU, weighted by population
- Distribution of democracy indexEIU
- Distribution of democracy indexPolity
- Distribution of democratic features indexBTI
- Distribution of democratic features indexBTI, weighted by population
- Distribution of egalitarian democracyV-Dem, weighted by population
- Distribution of egalitarian democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of electoral democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of electoral democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
- Distribution of liberal democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
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- Distribution of participatory democracy indexV-Dem
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- Egalitarian democracy indexV-Dem
- Egalitarian democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
- Egalitarian political institutions indexV-Dem
- Elected political leaders index
- Elections for government's chief executiveLexical Index
- Elections for legislatureLexical Index
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- Electoral democracyRegimes of the World
- Electoral democracy indexV-Dem
- Electoral democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
- Electoral pluralism indexEIU
- Elite consultations scoreV-Dem
- Engaged society scoreV-Dem
- Equal access to power indexV-Dem
- Equal resource distribution indexV-Dem
- Equal rights protection indexV-Dem
- Free and fair electionsRegimes of the World
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- Free and fair elections scoreBTI
- Free countries and territoriesFreedom House
- Freedom of association indexV-Dem
- Freedom of association scoreBTI
- Freedom of expression indexV-Dem
- Freedom of expression scoreBTI
- Functioning government indexEIU
- GDP per capita vs. electoral democracy index
- Government effectiveness vs. liberal democracy
- Human rights index vs. electoral democracy index
- Individual liberties and equality before the law index
- Judicial constraints on the executive index
- Justified political positions scoreV-Dem
- Legislative constraints on the executive index
- Liberal democracyRegimes of the World
- Liberal democracy indexV-Dem
- Liberal democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
- Liberal political institutionsRegimes of the World
- Liberal political institutions index
- Life expectancy vs. liberal democracy index
- Meaningful democratic electoral institutionsRegimes of the World
- Men's universal right to voteLexical Index
- Multi-party electionsRegimes of the World
- Multi-party elections for government's chief executiveRegimes of the World
- Multi-party elections for legislatureRegimes of the World
- Number of democracies by ageBoix et al.
- Number of democracies by ageBoix et al., including women's right to vote
- Number of democracies by agePolity
- Number of electoral democracies by ageRegimes of the World
- Number of electoral democracies by ageLexical Index
- Number of polyarchies by ageLexical Index
- Openness of executive recruitment scorePolity
- Participatory democracy indexV-Dem, weighted by population
- Participatory democracy indexV-Dem
- Participatory political institutions indexV-Dem
- People living in countries with universal right to vote
- People living in democracies and autocraciesRegimes of the World
- People living in democracies and autocraciesRegimes of the World, including ambiguous regimes
- People living in democracies and autocraciesLexical Index
- People living in democracies and autocraciesBTI
- People living in democracies and autocraciesLexical Index, simplified
- People living in democracies and non-democraciesBoix et al.
- People living in democracies and non-democraciesBoix et al., including women's right to vote
- People living in democracies and non-democraciesFreedom House
- People living in democracies and non-democraciesPolity
- People living in democracies and non-democraciesEIU
- People living in democratizing and autocratizing countriesEpisodes of Regime Transformation
- People living in democratizing and autocratizing countriesEpisodes of Regime Transformation, within regimes
- People living in free countries and territoriesFreedom House
- Political and social integration indexBTI
- Political centralization index
- Political libertiesLexical Index
- Political oppositionLexical Index
- Political participation indexBTI
- Political participation indexEIU
- Political regimeRegimes of the World
- Political regimeBoix et al.
- Political regimeRegimes of the World, including ambiguous regimes
- Political regimeBoix et al., including women's right to vote
- Political regimeFreedom House, free countries
- Political regimeFreedom House, electoral democracies
- Political regimeLexical Index
- Political regimePolity
- Political regimeBTI
- Political regimeEIU
- Political regimeEpisodes of Regime Transformation
- Political regimeEpisodes of Regime Transformation, within regimes
- Political regime classification by source
- Political rights ratingFreedom House
- Political rights scoreFreedom House
- PolyarchyLexical Index
- Progress towards the implementation of UNCLOS
- Regulation of political participation scorePolity
- Respect for counterarguments scoreV-Dem
- Rule of law indexBTI
- Rule of law indexV-Dem
- Separation of powers scoreBTI
- Share of adult citizens who have the right to vote
- Share of member states in international organizations
- Share of people who find political decision-making inclusive and responsive
- Share of people who trust their national government
- Share of voting rights in international organizations
- Stability of democratic institutions indexBTI
- Stateness indexBTI
- Strong elected local governments indexV-Dem
- Strong elected regional governments indexV-Dem
- Tax revenues vs. electoral democracy index
- Transparent lawsRegimes of the World
- Trust in government, OECD average
- Universal right to voteLexical Index
- Varieties of democracyV-Dem, weighted by population
- Varieties of democracyV-Dem
- Voter turnout of registered voters
- Voter turnout of voting-age population
- Women's political empowerment index vs. electoral democracy index
- Women's universal right to voteLexical Index