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OWID: Age of full democracy

Data by the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy. Full democracies are political systems in which citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and the legislature in multi-party, uncertain elections, and enjoy freedoms of expression, assembly, and association. Source: Lexical Index (2026), compiled by Our World in Data. 35,624 values; read with owid_series(slug='age-of-full-democracy').

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