The Rise of Democracy

	Autocracies	Democracies
1945	22	21
1949	26	24
1955	34	25
1960	47	33
1965	61	34
1970	70	31
1975	82	34
1980	70	37
1985	68	42
1990*	42	63
1995	35	74
2000	27	80
2005	23	89

* Berlin Wall fell in 1989

# of countries

Sources: ourworldindata.org