Countries that are long-standing electoral democracies, World

Political regimes based on the criteria of the classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) and the assessment by V-Dem’s experts. Electoral democracies are understoodhere as political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections.

178920221850190019502000ElectoralautocraciesElectoraldemocraciesaged 1-18aged 19-30aged 31-60aged 61-90aged 91 +Closedautocracies

Source: OWID based on Lührmann et al. (2018); V-Dem (v13)

Note: The share of closed autocracies increases a lot in 1900 because V-Dem covers many more countries since then, often colonies.