WHAT PERCENT OF COUNTRIES ARE NON-DEMOCRATIC
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Countries that are democracies and non-democracies, World
Based on the classification and estimates by Boix et al. (2013). Democracies are understood here as politicalsystems in which political leaders are elected under broad rights for men to vote in free and fair elections.TableChartEdit regionsSettings1800202018501900195020000%20%40%60%80%100%Non-democraciesDemocracies18002020
Data source: Boix-Miller-Rosato (2022) – Learn more about this data
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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 full democracyLexical Index
- Age of liberal democracyRegimes of the World
- Basic state functions scoreBTI
- Centralization of political power index
- Child mortality rate vs. electoral democracy
- Citizen satisfaction with democracy
- Citizen support for democracy
- Civil liberties indexEIU
- 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., 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 full democraciesLexical Index
- Countries that are long-standing liberal democraciesRegimes of the World
- Countries that have universal voting rights
- Deliberative democracy indexV-Dem
- Deliberative political institutions indexV-Dem
- Democracy indexPolity
- Democracy indexEIU
- Democracy index by source
- Democratic culture indexEIU
- Democratic electoral institutionsFreedom House
- Democratic featuresBTI
- Direct democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of deliberative democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of deliberative democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of democracy indexPolity, scaled by population
- Distribution of democracy indexEIU, scaled by population
- Distribution of democracy indexEIU
- Distribution of democracy indexPolity
- Distribution of democratic features indexBTI
- Distribution of democratic features indexBTI, scaled by population
- Distribution of egalitarian democracyV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of egalitarian democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of electoral democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of electoral democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of liberal democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of liberal democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of participatory democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of participatory democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Do you have a say in what the government does?
- Effective power to govern scoreBTI
- Egalitarian democracy indexV-Dem
- Egalitarian political institutions indexV-Dem
- Elected political leaders index
- Elections for the government’s chief executiveLexical Index
- Elections for the legislatureLexical Index
- Electoral democracyLexical Index
- Electoral democracyRegimes of the World
- Electoral democracy indexV-Dem
- 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
- Free and fair elections indexV-Dem
- 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
- Full democracyLexical Index
- 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 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 full democracies by ageLexical Index
- Number of liberal democracies by ageRegimes of the World
- Openness of executive recruitment scorePolity
- Participatory democracy indexV-Dem
- Participatory political institutions indexV-Dem
- People living in countries that have universal voting rights
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
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Countries that are democracies and non-democracies, World
Based on the classification and estimates by Boix et al. (2013). Democracies are understood here as politicalsystems in which political leaders are elected under broad rights for men to vote in free and fair elections.TableChartEdit regionsSettings1800202018501900195020000%20%40%60%80%100%Non-democraciesDemocracies18002020
Data source: Boix-Miller-Rosato (2022) – Learn more about this data
OurWorldinData.org/democracy | CC BY
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Related: How do different approaches score democracy across the world?
Related research and data
Charts
- 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 full democracyLexical Index
- Age of liberal democracyRegimes of the World
- Basic state functions scoreBTI
- Centralization of political power index
- Child mortality rate vs. electoral democracy
- Citizen satisfaction with democracy
- Citizen support for democracy
- Civil liberties indexEIU
- 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., 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 full democraciesLexical Index
- Countries that are long-standing liberal democraciesRegimes of the World
- Countries that have universal voting rights
- Deliberative democracy indexV-Dem
- Deliberative political institutions indexV-Dem
- Democracy indexPolity
- Democracy indexEIU
- Democracy index by source
- Democratic culture indexEIU
- Democratic electoral institutionsFreedom House
- Democratic featuresBTI
- Direct democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of deliberative democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of deliberative democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of democracy indexPolity, scaled by population
- Distribution of democracy indexEIU, scaled by population
- Distribution of democracy indexEIU
- Distribution of democracy indexPolity
- Distribution of democratic features indexBTI
- Distribution of democratic features indexBTI, scaled by population
- Distribution of egalitarian democracyV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of egalitarian democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of electoral democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of electoral democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of liberal democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Distribution of liberal democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of participatory democracy indexV-Dem
- Distribution of participatory democracy indexV-Dem, scaled by population
- Do you have a say in what the government does?
- Effective power to govern scoreBTI
- Egalitarian democracy indexV-Dem
- Egalitarian political institutions indexV-Dem
- Elected political leaders index
- Elections for the government’s chief executiveLexical Index
- Elections for the legislatureLexical Index
- Electoral democracyLexical Index
- Electoral democracyRegimes of the World
- Electoral democracy indexV-Dem
- 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
- Free and fair elections indexV-Dem
- 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
- Full democracyLexical Index
- 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 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 full democracies by ageLexical Index
- Number of liberal democracies by ageRegimes of the World
- Openness of executive recruitment scorePolity
- Participatory democracy indexV-Dem
- Participatory political institutions indexV-Dem
- People living in countries that have universal voting rights
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
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