DEMOCRACYS SCORE V1.0 BETA

Generated: 2026-09-03
Observation period: 1900-2025
Current countries and territories: 179
Country-year observations: 19215

SOURCE
V-Dem Country-Year Core v16, published March 2026
https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds26
https://www.v-dem.net/media/datasets/V-Dem-CY-Core-v16_csv.zip
Source ZIP SHA-256: 9055455c4adacd1ad9e78f1a7f3ac0768bdf26992e7651c0602a43ca7bdd4506

METHOD
Inputs: v2x_polyarchy, v2x_liberal, v2x_partip, v2xdl_delib, v2x_egal.
Weights: 20% each for electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian democracy.
The score is 100 times an equal blend of the weighted arithmetic mean and weighted geometric mean.
It is an experimental Democracys.org transformation, not an official V-Dem score or endorsement.
Derived lower and upper values apply the same transformation to V-Dem component bounds; they are an uncertainty envelope, not an independently estimated confidence interval.

LICENSE
The source data and this adapted dataset are distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Attribution: Coppedge et al. (2026), V-Dem Country-Year Dataset v16, Varieties of Democracy Project.