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Liberal democracy index during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the liberal democracy index changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1PDS Abdoulaye Wade 1 Apr 2000 – 2 Apr 2012 +5.7 points 1999 → 2011+0.5 points/yr
2APR Macky Sall 2 Apr 2012 – 2 Apr 2024 −5.8 points 2011 → 2023−0.5 points/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, V-Dem's 0 to 1 index times 100 · V-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100 · Senegal data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: ANSD (national accounts and consumer prices via the IMF, the employment survey via ILOSTAT), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt and deficits, as revised after the 2025 audit), World Bank (GDP before 2014, population), ILO, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; heads of state checked against the official lists. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy