World Human Rights Map

Selected 2025 observations and two indices with their existing published uncertainty bounds. Mapped source country identifiers to map identifiers. Preserved West Bank/Gaza and Zanzibar as separate source units. No new score, ranking or average created.

The lower/upper numbers retain the source’s codelow/codehigh estimates; they are not a 95% confidence interval. Compare observations within this dataset version.

Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, Linnea Fox, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Ana Good God, Allen Hicken, Katrin Kinzelbach, Joshua Krusell, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Juraj Medzihorsky, Anja Neundorf, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Josefine Pernes, Johannes von Römer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundström, Marcus Tannenberg, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, Steven Wilson and Daniel Ziblatt. 2026. V-Dem Country-Year Dataset v16. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds26.

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Selected 2025 observations and two indices with their existing published uncertainty bounds. Mapped source country identifiers to map identifiers. Preserved West Bank/Gaza and Zanzibar as separate source units. No new score, ranking or average created.

The lower/upper numbers retain the source’s codelow/codehigh estimates; they are not a 95% confidence interval. Compare observations within this dataset version.

Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, Linnea Fox, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Ana Good God, Allen Hicken, Katrin Kinzelbach, Joshua Krusell, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Juraj Medzihorsky, Anja Neundorf, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Josefine Pernes, Johannes von Römer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundström, Marcus Tannenberg, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, Steven Wilson and Daniel Ziblatt. 2026. V-Dem Country-Year Dataset v16. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds26.

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Selected factual status/date fields only; omitted declarations, reservations, source descriptions, database code and maps. Matched PLS to PSE, omitted the European Union as a non-country, documented nine authoritative corrections.

A dated research snapshot, not a live legal certification. Reservations, territorial applications and individual-complaints permissions require consulting the linked official records. Missing territorial data is not zero.

Country totals retain the UCDP OrganizedViolenceCY reporting units. Named conflicts and event counts are aggregated from GED 26.1 for 2025, including recorded events below the annual active-conflict threshold. Published low, best and high fatality estimates are retained without re-estimating them. Some source event ranges do not bracket their best estimates.

Davies, Shawn, Therese Pettersson and Magnus Oberg (2026). Organized violence 1989–2025, and violent political protests. Journal of Peace Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopres/xjag046

Sundberg, Ralph and Erik Melander (2013). Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 50(4), 523–532.

Yilmaz, Mert Can (2026). UCDP Country-Year Dataset on Organized Violence within Country Borders Codebook, version 26.1. Uppsala University.

Projected the public-domain 50m polygons into local SVG paths, retained country/territory labels, and excluded Antarctica from human-rights profiles. No external map tiles or visitor-location requests.

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