← Tenure by political system

A liberal democracy holds free and fair multiparty elections, and it also has strong guardrails between elections: independent courts, a free press, and real limits on what leaders can do. Citizens can vote a government out, and the rules protect people even when their side loses.

Across the 29 liberal democracies we track, the current leader has been in office an average of 1,265 days (about 3.5 years).

Regime classifications follow the Regimes of the World scheme (V-Dem), via Our World in Data.