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Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Data — v. 15 (2025)

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posted on 2025-04-09, 14:35 authored by Michael CoppedgeMichael Coppedge, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, david altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, linnea fox, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Ana Good God, Sandra Grahn, Allen HICKEN, Katrin Kinzelbach, Joshua Krusell, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, juraj medzihorsky, natalia natsika, Anja Neundorf, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Johannes von Römer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundström, Marcus Tannenberg, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-Ting Wang, Felix Wiebrecht, Tore Wig, steven lloyd wilson, Daniel Ziblatt

Collected data sets from March 2025, Varieties of Democracy, version 15.

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) seeks to capture seven different conceptions of democracy—participatory, consensual, majoritarian, deliberative, and egalitarian, in addition to the more familiar electoral and liberal democracy. Varieties of Democracy 15 produces the largest global dataset on democracy with over 31 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2024. Involving over 4,200 scholars and other country experts, V-Dem measures over 600 different attributes of democracy. The reliable, precise nature of the indicators as well as their lengthy historical coverage is useful to scholars studying why democracy succeeds or fails and how it affects human development, as well as to governments and NGOs wishing to evaluate efforts to promote democracy. V-Dem makes the improved indicators freely available for use by researchers, NGOs, international organizations, activists, and journalists. More information about V-Dem is available at v-dem.net, including visualization interfaces for data from 202 countries and the complete 2025 dataset for download.

  • The V-Dem Collection contains coder-level data and uncertainty estimates for all of the Variety of Democracy Datasets.


Funding

Please visit: https://v-dem.net/about/funders

History

Date Created

2025-03-13

Language

  • English

Temporal Coverage

1789-2024

Edition

Version 15

Rights Statement

March 2025 Copyright ©2025 by the authors. All rights reserved.

Publisher

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute

Additional Groups

  • Political Science

Source

Michael Coppedge