OWID: Age of liberal democracy

Classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) based on expert estimates by V-Dem. Liberal democracies are political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections, and their citizens have further individual rights, are equal before the law, and the legislative and the courts const Source: V-Dem (2026), compiled by Our World in Data. 32,564 values; read with owid_series(slug='age.