2026-04-12 · percent of world population
Electoral autocracies hold another big population block
Votes happen — but incumbents keep meaningful advantages.
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 — Electoral autocracies and Other regime types — 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 — Population by regime type put Other regime types at 75% of world population and Electoral autocracies at 25% — about 100 percent of world population in this edition's rounding.
Electoral democracy vs autocracy population shares (V-Dem via OWID).
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-04-12-pol-autocracy-electoral-pop