Polity IV Project:
Political Regime Characteristics
and Transitions, 1800-2013


Monty G. Marshall, Director

Monty G. Marshall, Principal Investigator

Societal-Systems Research Inc.
Ted Robert Gurr, Founder
University of Maryland (Emeritus)


Polity IV Individual Country Regime Trends, 1946-2013

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Annual Polity scores have been plotted for each of the 167 countries currently covered by the Polity IV data series for the period 1946-2013 (trend graphs are also included with the Polity IV 2010 Country Reports). This version of the Polity Country Trend graphs display periods of "factionalism" and important Polity change events, including autocratic backsliding, executive auto-coup or autogolpe, revolution, collapse of central authority (state failure), and successful military coups. Click on the country of interest in the "Regimes by Type 2013" map directly below (or table following) to view that country's contemporary regime trend (click here for a explanatory guide to the Polity Country Trend graphs).

Canada United States United States Mexico Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Cuba Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Haiti Dominican Republic Jamaica Colombia Ecuador Peru Bolivia Venezuela Trinidad & Tobago Guyana Paraguay Uruguay Argentina Chile Brazil Ireland United Kingdom Norway Sweden Finland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Denmark Netherlands Belgium Portugal Spain France Switzerland New Zealand Australia East Timor Indonesia Singapore Malaysia Philippines Taiwan Japan South Korea Germany Poland Czech Republic Slovak Republic Solomon Islands Papua New Guinea North Korea Belarus Moldova Ukraine Austria Slovenia Croatia Hungary Bosnia Montenegro Albania Serbia Macedonia Romania Bulgaria Greece Italy Turkey Cyprus Lebanon Israel Syria Jordan Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Mongolia Kuwait Bahrain Qatar Iraq Iran Fiji Afghanistan Pakistan Nepal Bangladesh Bhutan Sri Lanka India India Myanmar Thailand Laos Cambodia Vietnam China Russia United Arab Emirates Oman Saudi Arabia Yemen Mauritius Comoros Madagascar Djibouti Eritrea Lesotho Swaziland South Africa Botswana Namibia Zimbabwe Malawi Mozambique Angola Zambia Burundi Rwanda Tanzania Uganda Kenya Somalia Ethiopia Sudan DRCongo Congo Gabon Equatorial Guinea Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Egypt Libya Tunisia Gambia Guinea Bissau Senegal Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Mauritania Morocco Ivory Coast Ghana Togo Benin Burkina Faso Mali Nigeria Niger Algeria Suriname South Sudan Luxembourg


Polity IV Individual Country Regime Trends, 1946-2013
Click here to view Legend Key for Trends Graphs

* The research described in the Polity IV Project was sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force (PITF).
The PITF is funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The views expressed herein are the author's/authors' alone and do not
represent the views of the US Government.

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