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OWID: Age of democracy

Data by Polity 5. Democracies are political systems with broadly open, multi-party, and competitive elections for a chief executive who faces comprehensive institutional constraints, and political participation is broadly competitive. Source: Polity 5 (2020), compiled by Our World in Data. 19,786 values; read with owid_series(slug='age-of-democracy-polity').

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