V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Dataset

V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Dataset

The V-Dem Dataset provides country-year and country-date democracy indicators and indices from the Varieties of Democracy project, downloadable as STATA, CSV, R or SPSS files. The FAQ says: "The V-Dem Dataset is publicly available and published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 license."

Coverage

Four products, each Version 16, published March 2026: Country-Year V-Dem Full+Others (531 V-Dem indicators and 251 indices, plus 62 other indicators from other data sources; STATA, CSV, R, SPSS); Country-Year V-Dem Core (five high-level indices, 93 sub-indices and the 179 indicators constituting them; STATA, CSV, R, SPSS); Country-Date V-Dem (531 V-Dem indicators and 95 indices; STATA, CSV, R, SPSS); and Coder-Level V-Dem (273 indicators with coder-reliability scores; CSV, R).

Verdict

Country-year and country-date democracy indicators and indices from the V-Dem project, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. The FAQ says: "This means that anyone is free to use, adapt, and share the data, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given and that any derivative products are distributed under the same license terms." Use the page's suggested citation for the version downloaded. Signal Lab links only.