🗳️ Top Countries by Years of Electoral Democracy 1849-2021

This bar chart race shows countries by years of electoral democracy, 1849-2021.

The counter and graph shows the number of countries.

Countries are shown as within modern borders.

Electoral democracy is here understood as as political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections. Classified by Lührmann et al. (2018) and the assessment by V-Dem’s experts.

Source: https://v-dem.net/vdemds.html

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