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Global State of Democracy Indices
The Global State of Democracy Indices (GSoD Indices) measure democratic trends at the country, regional and global levels across a broad range of different categories of democracy in the period 1975–2023. They do not provide a single index of democracy.
They include data for 174 countries across the globe, and are based on 165 individual indicators devised by various scholars and organizations using different types of sources: expert surveys, standards-based coding by research groups and analysts, observational data and composite measures. The Varieties of Democracy project contributes almost half of the indicators used in the Global State of Democracies Indices. There are 24 data sources in all.
The GSoD indices consist of category and factor scores per country per year for the period 1975–2023. All scoring runs from 0 to 1, with 0 representing the lowest achievement in the whole sample and 1 the highest.
Data files and documentation can be downloaded from the GSoD Indices interactive website.
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