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    [OC] How Democratic Is the World? GDP vs Population

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    1. aspiringtroublemaker on

      Data:
      V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index: [https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/](https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/)
      IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO): [https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES:WEO](https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES:WEO)
      World Bank Population, total: [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL)

      Explored with [data.tablepage.ai/d/electoral-democracy-index-by-country-1789-2025](http://data.tablepage.ai/d/electoral-democracy-index-by-country-1789-2025)

    2. ExPrinceKropotkin on

      I run for the exits every time some political scientist tries to create a single index for all possible varieties of institutional set-up (or even worse: tries to draw conclusions from it). It’s a translation of qualitative to (supposedly) quantitative measures that just loses too much detail to be workable.

    4. goldbeater on

      The States and Canada appear very Sinclair.nI would think there would be more of a difference given that there is a big difference.

    5. ImpressiveMethod1659 on

      I love this! Where did you get the data from?

      (Edit: just saw the links for the data)

    6. 3rdhottestgirl on

      Seeing the slightly blue strip turn red for the population at the end is so sad. We’re losing everything we hold dear

    7. TA-MajestyPalm on

      I’m sure people will nitpick but honestly really cool graphic showing how things change over time.

      As someone living in the US seeing the “global” bar stay mostly on the red half is wild. Really puts things into perspective

    8. Bigthunderrumblefish on

      The world wishing that America was still as democratic as it was in 2010