electricsheepasia/asia-owid-liberal-democracy-index

Liberal Democracy Index | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 7,599 observations · 48 Asia countries · 1789–2025 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Asia](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepasia)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 7,599 observations of Liberal Democracy Index data across 48 Asia 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

48 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

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

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

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

Citation

@misc{asia_owid_liberal_democracy_index_2025,
  title        = {Liberal Democracy Index | Asia (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 Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-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 Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia 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/electricsheepasia

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