Democracy Report 2026: Unraveling the Democratic Era?
V-Dem Institute — Democracy Report 2026: Unraveling the Democratic Era? (2026)V-Dem Institute · 2026 · Report · Key findings; Section 1EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-1004 · as of 2025-12-31 · about: Regimes of the World (RoW) typology · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“The V-Dem Democracy Report 2026 counts 92 autocracies and 87 democracies at the end of 2025, and estimates that 74% of the world's population (about 6 billion people) lives in autocracies and only 7% in liberal democracies.”
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