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People living in democracies and
autocracies, World

Political regimes based on the criteria of the classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) and the assessment by V-Dem’s experts.

1800 2021 1850 1900 1950 0 1 billion 2 billion 3 billion 4 billion 5 billion 6 billion 7 billion No regime data People living in closed autocracies People living in electoral autocracies People living in electoral democracies People living in liberal democracies

Source: OWID based on Lührmann et al. (2018) and V-Dem (v12), Gapminder (v6), HYDE
(v3.2), and UN (2019).