Countries that are long-standing liberal democracies, World

Political regimes based on the criteria of the classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) and the assessment by V-Dem’s experts. Liberal democracies are understood hereas political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections, and their citizens have further individual rights, are equal before the law, and thelegislative and the courts constrain the executive.

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.