Description1790- Electoral and liberal democracy indices - world.svg	English: V-Dem Electoral and Liberal Democracy Indices for the world, 1790– Data source for Version 1 (data through 2025): Country Graph. V-Dem Institute (March 2026). Archived from the original on 1 March 2026. (Choose "World" and under "VDem Indices" select "Election Democracy Index" and "Liberal Democracy Index". Click on the three horizontal lines in the upper right, and in the resulting drop-down menu choose "Download Graph Data as CSV") Suggested caption: The V-Dem Institute's indices of democracy indicate that worldwide democracy peaked in 2012, and has since declined, with the decline accelerating in the early 2020s. Technical note: most SVG code was automatically generated by the "Line charts" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Additions and adjustments were made in a text editor. This SVG file contains embedded text that can be translated into your language, using any capable SVG editor, text editor or the SVG Translate tool. For more information see: About translating SVG files.
Date	21 March 2026
Source	Own work
Author	RCraig09

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  V-Dem Electoral and Liberal Democracy Indices for the United States, 1900–2024.svg
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  1790- Electoral and liberal democracy indices - world.svg
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