QoG code: ht_region
This is a tenfold politico-geographic classification of world regions, based on a mixture of two considerations: geographical proximity (with the partial exception of category 5 below) and demarcation by area specialists having contributed to a regional understanding of democratization. The categories are as follow:
1. Eastern Europe and post Soviet Union (including Central Asia)
2. Latin America (including Cuba, Haiti \& the Dominican Republic)
3. North Africa \& the Middle East (including Israel, Turkey \& Cyprus)
4. Sub-Saharan Africa
5. Western Europe and North America (including Australia \& New Zealand)
6. East Asia (including Japan \& Mongolia)
7. South-East Asia
8. South Asia
9. The Pacific (excluding Australia \& New Zealand)
10. The Caribbean (including Belize, Guyana \& Suriname, but excluding Cuba, Haiti \& the Dominican Republic)
| Dataset | No. Countries |
|---|---|
| Basic cross-section | 194 |
| Basic time-series | 198 |
| Standard cross-section | 194 |
| Standard time-series | 198 |
| OECD cross-section | 32 |
| OECD time-series | 32 |
| Dataset | Available for years |
|---|---|
| Standard time-series | 1946-2025 |
| Basic time-series | 1946-2025 |
| OECD time-series | 1946-2025 |
This variable has information from 1946 to 2025.