In the last century, autocratic regimes dominated the world and democracies were in the minority. It was only after the Second World War that autocracies began to decline, a trend that accelerated with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Since then, both forms of government have been close to each other in quantitative terms, as the Statista animation with data from Our World in Data shows. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the downward trend of autocracies has stopped, which c