V-Dem Democracy Indices

Datasets released by the V-Dem Institute include information on hundreds of indicator variables describing all aspects of government, especially on the quality of democracy, inclusivity, and other economic indicators.

[2] V-Dem uses methodological tools to deal with the subject nature of ratings and their reliability.

[12] The Digital Society Project is a subset of indicators on V-Dem's survey that asks questions about social media's political status and the internet.

[15] Political scientist Jonas Wolff criticized V-Dem for gradually abandoning a pluralist conceptualization of democracy.

[19] The V-Dem dataset does not cover some countries, namely: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Brunei, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia, Grenada, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Vatican.

Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index for 2023
Countries autocratizing (red) or democratizing (blue) substantially and significantly (2010–2020). Countries in grey are substantially unchanged. [ 10 ]