Democratic regimes and when they became democratic

by Piero Scaruffi | Back to History | Politics | National leaders | Contact
(The dates are for universal male suffrage: most of these countries didn't grant women the right to vote until much later. I haven't had time to do the research on universal female suffrage, which would be the real date of democratization)

Switzerland (1798)
Denmark (1849)
USA (1870)
New Zealand (1893)
Australia (1901)
Norway (1905)
Sweden (1907)
Iceland (1915)
Britain (1918)
Canada (1931)


WORLD WAR II

New Zealand (1947)
Italy (1948)
Israel (1948)
Germany (1949)
Mexico (1949)
Turkey (1950)
France (1951)
Japan (1952)
India (1952)
Venezuela (1958)
Portugal (1974)
Greece (1974)
Colombia (1974)
Spain (1975)
Peru (1980)
Argentina (1983)
Bolivia (1983)
Brazil (1985)
Guatemala (1985)
Philippines (1986)
South Korea (1987)
FALL OF COMMUNISM

Chile (1989)
Czech Republic (1989)
Namibia (1989)
Panama (1989)
Poland (1990)
Mongolia (1990)
Romania (1990)
Hungary (1990)
Zambia (1991)
Nepal (1991)
Armenia (1991)
Congo Brazzaville (1992)
Albania (1992)
Mali (1992)
Angola (1992)
Ghana (1992)
Madagascar (1992)
Taiwan (1992)
Cambodia (1993)
Kenya (1993)
Niger (1993)
Central Africa (1993)
Gabon (1993)
Malawi (1994)
South Africa (1994)
Ethiopia (1995)
Tanzania (1995)
Russia (1996)
Uganda (1996)
Nigeria (1999)
Senegal (2000)
Yugoslavia/ Serbia (2000)
Indonesia (1999)
East Timor (2002)
USA/BRITISH INVASION OF IRAQ

Ukraine (2004)
Georgia (2004)
Afghanistan (2004)
Kyrgyzstan (2005)
Iraq (2005)
Palestine (2005)
Lebanon (2005)
Burundi (2005)
Liberia (2005)
Congo Zaire (2005)
Haiti (2006)
Mauritania (2007)
Togo (2007)
Bhutan (2008)
Pakistan (2008)
Maldives (2008)
Guinea (2010)
Tunisia (2011)
Myanmar (2012)
Burkina Faso (2015)
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