2026-04-13 · percent of world population
Liberal democracies house a smaller fraction of humanity
Civil-liberties protections are rarer than bare electoral competition.
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 — Liberal democracies 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 85% of world population and Liberal democracies at 15% — 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/2026-04-13-pol-democracy-liberal-pop