2026-03-08 · percent of world population
Asia’s democratic population share is rising but uneven
East Asia vs South Asia differ sharply.
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 — Asians in democracies and Asians in non-democracies — 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 — Share living in democracies put Asians in non-democracies at 78% of world population and Asians in democracies at 22% — about 100 percent of world population in this edition's rounding.
Population living in democratic vs non-democratic regimes (V-Dem).
Share and export
Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-03-08-pol-live-asia-dem