Most people around the world think democracy is a good way to run a country, but they are often dissatisfied with how it is working in practice and are concerned about where it is heading.
These worries are consistent with expert surveys tracking the state of democracy worldwide. Across measures of free and fair elections and other features of democracy, like civil rights and checks on power, dozens of countries have become less democratic over the last decade…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- The rise of electoral democracy
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
- How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts
- What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
