electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-liberal-democracy-index

Liberal Democracy Index | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 7,855 observations · 40 Europe countries · 1789–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 7,855 observations of Liberal Democracy Index data across 40 Europe countries, spanning 1789–2025.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Liberal Democracy Index

Geographic coverage

40 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BGR	237	1789	2025
BEL	237	1789	2025
LVA	237	1789	2025
GBR	237	1789	2025
FRA	237	1789	2025
EST	237	1789	2025
ESP	237	1789	2025
DNK	237	1789	2025
RUS	237	1789	2025
SWE	237	1789	2025
IRL	237	1789	2025
HUN	237	1789	2025
GRC	235	1789	2025
NLD	235	1789	2025
MKD	234	1789	2025
...	25 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Albania
country_iso3	string	—	ALB
year	int64	—	1914
Liberal democracy index	float64	—	0.13
World region according to OWID	string	—	Europe

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-liberal-democracy-index")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Liberal democracy index")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_liberal_democracy_index_2025,
  title        = {Liberal Democracy Index | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/liberal-democracy-index},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-liberal-democracy-index}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/liberal-democracy-index