2026-03-03 · percent of world population
Europe scores high on civil liberties indices
Backsliding in spots does not erase the regional lead.
Policy grids compress billions of people into equal squares — the shock is in the share, not the cell. This grid divides world population (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Europeans with high liberties and Europeans with weaker scores — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of world population (0.1% of world population) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Civil liberties (V-Dem) put Europeans with high liberties at 70% of world population and Europeans with weaker scores at 30% — about 100 percent of world population in this edition's rounding.
V-Dem civil liberties index population shares.
Share and export
Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-03-03-pol-civil-lib-europe