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English:

Governments self identified as democracies.

Governments self-identified as dictatorships.

Français : Version mise à jour de la carte "Claims Of Demoracy" de l'utilisateur BruceHallman.

Les pays qui affirment être des démocraties, et où se tiennent des élections.

Les pays qui affirment être des dictatures, et où il n'y a pas d'élections.

A noter que sept pays -le Swaziland, le Bhoutan, le Qatar, le Koweit et Bahrain- ont instauré le suffrage universel et tenu des élections au cours de la décennie 2000, passant ainsi du "rouge" au "vert".

Date

3 May 2009

Source

Own work. This file was derived from:

Democracy claims 2.PNG
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, notably lacking any indication of significant democratic elective bodies during the aught's for Oman and the UAE by User:Aridd for the first, and by w:en:User:Canuckguy for the second, on 2008-04-06 and 2006-11-12 respectively. Former released under {{PD-self}} and latter under {{PD-self}}

Author

Cflm001 (talk)

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File history of Democracy claims 2.png

11:55, 6 April 2008 1,357×628 (22 KB) Aridd (Talk | contribs) ({{Information |Description=carte des démocraties |Source=travail personnel |Date=6 avril 2008 |Author= Aridd |Permission=domaine public |other versions= }} Version mise à jour de la carte "Claims Of Demoracy" de l'utilisateur BruceHallma)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:01, 15 June 2025	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	Lumbering in thought	Recentered. Previous comment's municipal elections info here
	00:37, 15 June 2025	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	Lumbering in thought	I believe User:Aridd was referring to 2007 municipal elections w. de facto 25% of the population as an indication, but to settle it partyless 2021 elections were held w. 30 out of 45 seats elected with 18-and-overs. My other activities were recounted [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Overwriting_existing_files/Requests#Allow_overwriting_of_File%3ADemocracy_claims.svg_from_w%3AFile%3ADemocracy_claims.svg here].
	11:12, 1 March 2025	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	BorysMapping	Added South Sudan
	18:48, 13 January 2022	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	BorysMapping	I will mark Afghanistan as red as of now: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/25/taliban-dissolves-afghanistan-election-commission
	17:49, 3 December 2021	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	BorysMapping	Since Taliban takeover it is unclear whether Afghanistan now claim to be democratic (there is no constitutional basis to current government)
	19:03, 26 January 2019	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	BorysMapping	Update: Fiji had democratic elections in 2014
	17:23, 19 February 2012	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	Antemister	update, Myanmar and Tonga created elective bodys, the arab monarchies still do not have such ones
	00:51, 14 April 2010	940 × 477 (1.66 MB)	NuclearVacuum	minor fixes
	16:39, 2 August 2009	940 × 477 (1.7 MB)	NuclearVacuum	added mictostate markers
	07:03, 5 July 2009	940 × 477 (1.63 MB)	Cflm001	colouring [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7799613.stm Fiji] and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6177522.stm Tonga] red.