2026-03-04 · percent of world population
Low civil liberties affect billions
Autocracies restrict speech and assembly.
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 — Low liberties, Asia & Pacific, and 2 more groups — 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 Low liberties at 45% of world population and Asia & Pacific at 28.6% — 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/2026-03-04-pol-civil-lib-low