Electoral Democracy (V-Dem)

Electoral Democracy. V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy, 2018–2025.

Source: V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Unit: index 0–1 Parsed: 2026-06-28 Open source ↗

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Avg (2025)
0.5
0.00pp vs 2024
Improving
0
of 179 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
179
±0.5pp band

Electoral Democracy

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2018–2025.

0.20.30.40.60.7 20182019202020212022202320242025
AmericasEurope & Central AsiaSub-Saharan AfricaEast Asia & PacificMiddle East & North AfricaSouth AsiaAdvanced / other

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇲🇺 Mauritius 0.7 +0.24pp
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 0.8 +0.11pp
🇰🇷 South Korea 0.8 +0.09pp
🇬🇦 Gabon 0.3 +0.07pp
🇱🇧 Lebanon 0.4 +0.07pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇺🇸 United States of America 0.7 -0.11pp
🇬🇪 Georgia 0.4 -0.08pp
🇻🇺 Vanuatu 0.7 -0.07pp
🇲🇩 Moldova 0.6 -0.07pp
🇰🇼 Kuwait 0.1 -0.06pp

By group

Change by group, latest period.

Americas 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 0.00pp
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.00pp
South Asia 0.00pp
Advanced / other 0.00pp
Middle East & North Africa 0.00pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Americas 27 0.6 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 49 0.6 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 23 0.5 0.00pp
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 0.4 0.00pp
South Asia 8 0.4 0.00pp
Advanced / other 4 0.4 0.00pp
Middle East & North Africa 20 0.2 0.00pp