2026-03-09 · percent of world population
Year
Six in ten live under non-democratic rule
Four V-Dem regime buckets — population-weighted, not a simple two-color split.
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 — Closed autocracies, Electoral autocracies, 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 — Share living in democracies put Closed autocracies at 30% of world population and Electoral autocracies at 30% — about 100 percent of world population in this edition's rounding.
Population living in democratic vs non-democratic regimes (V-Dem).
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-03-09-pol-live-autocracy-60