Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output. Includes 273 indicators.
| Version | 16 |
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| Published | March 2026 |
| Formats | CSV, R |
We also have external archives at the SND and at CurateND where e.g., posterior distributions for variables, and older versions (v1-v7) can be accessed.
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V-Dem Dataset version 16 (2026)
Country-Date: V-Dem
Includes 531 V-Dem indicators and 95 indices.
| Version | 16 |
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| Published | March 2026 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem democracy indices, 93 sub-indices, and the 179 indicators constituting them.
| Version | 16 |
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| Published | March 2026 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 531 V-Dem indicators and 251 indices + 62 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 16 |
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| Published | March 2026 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
V-Dem Dataset version 15 (2025)
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 531 V-Dem indicators and 245 indices + 60 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 15 |
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| Published | March 2025 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem democracy indices, 92 sub-indices, and the 167 indicators constituting them.
| Version | 15 |
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| Published | March 2025 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
Country-Date: V-Dem
Includes 500 V-Dem indicators and 81 indices.
| Version | 15 |
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| Published | March 2025 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output. Includes 273 indicators.
| Version | 15 |
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| Published | March 2025 |
| Formats | CSV, R |
V-Dem Dataset version 14 (2024)
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 500 V-Dem indicators and 245 indices + 57 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 14 |
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| Published | March 2024 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 14 |
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| Published | March 2024 |
| Formats | CSV, R |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 470 V-Dem indicators and 81 indices.
| Version | 14 |
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| Published | March 2024 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem democracy indices, 92 indices, and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 14 |
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| Published | March 2024 |
| Formats | STATA, CSV, R, SPSS |
V-Dem Dataset version 13 (2023)
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices + 59 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 13 |
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| Published | March 2023 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem democracy indices, 82 indices, and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 13 |
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| Published | March 2023 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices.
| Version | 13 |
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| Published | March 2023 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 13 |
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| Published | March 2023 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Dem Dataset version 12 (2022)
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem democracy indices, 82 indices, and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 12 |
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| Published | March 2022 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices + 59 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 12 |
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| Published | March 2022 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices.
| Version | 12 |
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| Published | March 2022 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 12 |
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| Published | March 2022 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Party Dataset version 2 (2022)
Country-Party-Date: V-Party
| Version | 2 |
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| Published | February 2022 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Party
| Version | 2 |
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| Published | February 2022 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Dem Dataset version 11.1 (2021)
Note: For v11, there was a mistake in aggregating a number of A and A* variables from country-date to country-year by using the wrong aggregation method, most often using maximum instead of last or last instead of maximum per country-year. Most indices were not affected by this as they get calculated using country-date inputs. The following indices were affected and were recalculated for v11.1, the number of changed observations in comparison to v11 are in parenthesis: v2x_horacc (all), v2x_accountability (all), v2x_veracc (all), v2x_diagacc (all), v2x_divparctrl (45), v2x_feduni (8), v2x_regime (24), v2x_regime_amb (25), v2x_ex_confidence (17), v2x_ex_direlect (8), v2x_ex_hereditary (21), v2x_ex_military (52), v2x_ex_party (27). The affected A and A* variables were re-aggregated using the correct method for v11.1.
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem Democracy Indices, 82 indices, and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 11.1 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices + 59 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 11.1 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices.
| Version | 11.1 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 11.1 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Dem Dataset version 11 (2021)
Note: For v11, there was a mistake in aggregating a number of A and A* variables from country-date to country-year by using the wrong aggregation method, most often using maximum instead of last or last instead of maximum per country-year. Most indices were not affected by this as they get calculated using country-date inputs. The following indices were affected and were recalculated for v11.1, the number of changed observations in comparison to v11 are in parenthesis: v2x_horacc (all), v2x_accountability (all), v2x_veracc (all), v2x_diagacc (all), v2x_divparctrl (45), v2x_feduni (8), v2x_regime (24), v2x_regime_amb (25), v2x_ex_confidence (17), v2x_ex_direlect (8), v2x_ex_hereditary (21), v2x_ex_military (52), v2x_ex_party (27). The affected A and A* variables were re-aggregated using the correct method for v11.1.
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
Country-Year: V-Dem CoreThe five high-level V-Dem Democracy Indices, 82 indices, and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 11 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices + 59 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 11 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 483 V-Dem indicators and indices.
| Version | 11 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 11 |
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| Published | March 2021 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Party Dataset version 1 (2020)
Country-Party-Date: V-Party
| Version | 1 |
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| Published | October 2020 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Party
| Version | 1 |
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| Published | October 2020 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Dem Dataset version 10 (2020)
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem Democracy Indices, 82 indices, and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 10 |
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| Published | March 2020 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 470+ V-Dem indicators and indices + 59 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 10 |
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| Published | March 2020 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 470+ V-Dem indicators and indices.
| Version | 10 |
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| Published | March 2020 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 10 |
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| Published | March 2020 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Dem Dataset version 9 (2019)
Note: 6 May 2019 we uploaded slightly updated dataset packages. The difference concerns some tags and Codebook entries. For details, please consult the change log file changelog.txt (447 bytes).
Note: 3 June 2019 we uploaded slightly updated versions of the country-year full+others dataset packages. The difference concerns only two variables on GDP growth (e_migdpgro and e_migdpgrolns).
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five high-level V-Dem Democracy Indices, 81 indices, and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 9 |
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| Published | April 2019 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 450+ V-Dem indicators and indices + 59 other indicators from other data sources. For R users, we recommend to install our vdemdata R package which includes the most recent V-Dem dataset and some useful functions to explore the data.
| Version | 9 |
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| Published | April 2019 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 450+ V-Dem indicators and indices.
| Version | 9 |
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| Published | April 2019 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, R |
Coder-Level: V-Dem
Data coded by Country Experts and coder-reliability scores from the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 9 |
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| Published | April 2019 |
| Formats | CSV |
V-Dem Dataset version 8 (2018)
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
The five V-Dem Democracy Indices and the indicators constituting them.
| Version | 8 |
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| Published | April 2018 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, Excel |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices.
STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard deviation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 8 |
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| Published | April 2018 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
Country-Year: V-Dem Extended
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources.
| Version | 8 |
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| Published | April 2018 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, Excel |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard deviation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 8 |
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| Published | April 2018 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
V-Dem Dataset version 7.1 (2017)
We strongly recommend that you to use the most recent version of the dataset which can be downloaded directly from our website. We also have an external archive, here you find: the coder-level version of the dataset, accompanying documentation, posterior distributions for variables, and older versions (v1-v7). To access the archive, click here.
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Year format).
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 7.1 |
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| Published | July 2017 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources (Country-Year format).
| Version | 7.1 |
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| Published | July 2017 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, Excel |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Date format).
Type B, C and D indicators and most indices are in Country-Date format. For details on variable types, see the codebook.
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 7.1 |
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| Published | July 2017 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
V-Dem Dataset version 7 (2017)
We strongly recommend that you to use the most recent version of the dataset which can be downloaded directly from our website.
We also have an external archive, here you find: the coder-level version of the dataset, accompanying documentation, posterior distributions for variables, and older versions (v1-v7). To access the archive, click here.
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Year format).
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 7 |
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| Published | May 2017 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources (Country-Year format).
| Version | 7 |
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| Published | May 2017 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, Excel |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Date format).
Type B, C and D indicators and most indices are in Country-Date format. For details on variable types, see the codebook.
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 7 |
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| Published | May 2017 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
V-Dem Dataset version 6.2 (2016)
We strongly recommend that you to use the most recent version of the dataset which can be downloaded directly from our website.
We also have an external archive, here you find: the coder-level version of the dataset, accompanying documentation, posterior distributions for variables, and older versions (v1-v7). To access the archive, click here.
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Year format).
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 6.2 |
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| Published | June 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources (Country-Year format).
| Version | 6.2 |
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| Published | June 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, Excel |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Date format).
Type B, C and D indicators and most indices are in Country-Date format. For details on variable types, see the codebook.
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 6.2 |
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| Published | June 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
V-Dem Dataset version 6.1 (2016)
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Year format).
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 6.1 |
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| Published | May 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources (Country-Year format).
| Version | 6.1 |
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| Published | May 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV, Excel |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Date format).
Type B, C and D indicators and most indices are in Country-Date format. For details on variable types, see the codebook.
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 6.1 |
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| Published | May 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV, Excel |
V-Dem Dataset version 6 (2016)
We strongly recommend that you to use the most recent version of the dataset which can be downloaded directly from our website.
We also have an external archive, here you find: the coder-level version of the dataset, accompanying documentation, posterior distributions for variables, and older versions (v1-v7). To access the archive, click here.
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Year format).
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 6 |
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| Published | March 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources (Country-Year format).
| Version | 6 |
|---|---|
| Published | March 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Date format).
Type B, C and D indicators and most indices are in Country-Date format. For details on variable types, see the codebook.
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
| Version | 6 |
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| Published | March 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV |
V-Dem Dataset version 5 (2016)
We strongly recommend that you to use the most recent version of the dataset which can be downloaded directly from our website.
We also have an external archive, here you find: the coder-level version of the dataset, accompanying documentation, posterior distributions for variables, and older versions (v1-v7). To access the archive, click here.
Country-Year: V-Dem Core
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Year format).
Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns.
| Version | 5 |
|---|---|
| Published | January 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV |
Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources (Country-Year format).
| Version | 5 |
|---|---|
| Published | January 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV |
Country-Date: V-Dem
All 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Date format).
Type B, C and D indicators and most indices are in Country-Date format. For details on variable types, see the codebook.
Suitable also for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns.
| Version | 5 |
|---|---|
| Published | January 2016 |
| Formats | SPSS, STATA, CSV |