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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 indicators of democratic performance. They do not provide a single index of democracy.
They include data for 174 countries across the globe, and are based on well over one hundred individual indicators from more than 20 source data sets collected 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.
The GSoD indices provide scores per country per year across 30 indices. The data coverage begins for many countries in 1975, and is updated annually. All scoring runs from 0 to 1, with 0 representing the lowest achievement in the whole sample and 1 the highest.
For more information and to download the data, please see the GSoD Indices Methodology and Codebook in the Data set and Resources section below.
Answers to frequently asked questions can be found here.
Data files and documentation can be downloaded from the GSoD Indices interactive website.
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