Only 6.6% of the world’s population now lives in a full democracy, down from 12.5% a decade ago. Our world in data is free and accessible for everyone. The democracy index published by the british media company the economist group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world.
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Only 45% of the world’s population lives in a democracy, 39% under authoritarian rule, and 15% in “hybrid regimes” that combine electoral democracy. According to the global democracy index 2024 on 167 countries analyzed only 25 can be considered “full” democracies while another 46,. And a significant portion of the world’s.
The economist intelligence unit compiles and publishes an annual report referred to as the democracy index, which measures the state of democracy.
This chart shows the share of people in the world who live in a democracy from 1900 to 2024. The institute estimates that 74 percent of the world’s population, around 6 billion people, now live in autocracies, while only 26 percent live. Help us do this work by making a donation.
