V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: vdem-democracy-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	176	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	176	0
Electoral democracy (0–1)electoral_democracyHeadline	The headline figure: Electoral democracy index (0–1).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.016Saudi Arabia0.913Denmarkmiddle 0.498	154	0
Liberal democracy (0–1)liberal_democracyMeasure	Electoral democracy plus protection of individual and minority rights through civil liberties, the rule of law and checks on the executive; 0–1.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.009Eritrea0.884Denmarkmiddle 0.354	155	0
Participatory democracy (0–1)participatory_democracyMeasure	Electoral democracy plus active citizen participation beyond elections, through civil society, direct democracy and local elected bodies; 0–1.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.008Eritrea0.785Switzerlandmiddle 0.298	155	0
Deliberative democracy (0–1)deliberative_democracyMeasure	Electoral democracy plus decisions reached by public reasoning about the common good rather than narrow interests or coercion; 0–1.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.011North Korea0.867Denmarkmiddle 0.339	158	0
Egalitarian democracy (0–1)egalitarian_democracyMeasure	Electoral democracy plus equal protection of rights and equal access to power and resources across social groups; 0–1.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.016Afghanistan0.876Denmarkmiddle 0.321	158	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 36 years.

Not in this dataset · 49 places this site covers

V-Dem Institute gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamIsle of ManKiribatiLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSint MaartenTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg

   v-dem.net

2. 2 · Their file

   V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index 2025

   V-Dem-CY-Core-v16_csv.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 11, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   36 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as vdem-democracy-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/vdem-democracyA key for Democracy & Civil Liberties in the Country Index.

From the V-Dem Institute’s annual dataset. V-Dem’s data actually runs to 1789, and the series is cut at 1990 deliberately: the deep history is populated by states that no longer exist, and every row here keys to a present-day country.