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Number of liberal democracies by age

Classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) based on expert estimates by V-Dem. Liberal democracies are political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections, and their citizens have further individual rights, are equal before the law, and the legislative and the courts constrain the executive.

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