Dataset
Age of full democracy
owid.age-of-full-democracy
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About
Number of consecutive years in a full democracy.
Cite as: Lexical Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. “Age of full democracy” [dataset]. Lexical Index, “Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy (LIED) v6.9” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1789–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-04-02
- Units
- years
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-of-full-democracy
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| age_polyarchy_lied | text | Age of full democracy (years) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |