About us
The largest global study of democracy and society
Get unparalleled insights on global attitudes towards democracy, government effectiveness, political leaders and many other topics-based on millions of interviews per year from across 100+ countries
Who we are
A collaboration for global insight
In 2018, Nico Jaspers, a tech entrepreneur from Berlin, joined forces with the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, founded by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Nato Secretary General and Prime Minister of Denmark, to develop a new format of measuring people’s perception of democracy around the world.
The idea was to develop a tool to better understand how people around the world actually experience democracy, what they aspire to and what they fear.
Measuring democracy
The Democracy Perception Index (DPI)
Since its inception in 2018, the Democracy Perception Index has become one of the leading tools to measure and track how people around the world see democracy. It has been cited in well over 2.000 news articles, and has become a trusted resource for some of the world’s most influential thinkers, policy makers and human rights advocates.
In the 2025 edition, it covers 100 countries and captures millions of answers on topics ranging from the perceived impact of elections to trust in courts, satisfaction with freedom of speech, government transparency and many more.
Beyond the DPI
Expanding our data coverage
Over the years, the DPI has grown to cover ever more countries and topics - some only tangentially related to democracy such as people's attitude towards Covid, their willingness to cut ties with Russia after the start of the war against Ukraine, the global perception of the US, and many others.
In 2025, we decided to give the project its own organisational setup, and to make the data that we generate more widely available in different reports and databases. Our mission is to turn the DPI into a platform that gives researchers, policymakers, democracy activists and anyone else who cares about the state of the world direct access to the voices and thoughts of billions.
Support the DPI
As a project, the DPI has existed for many years, but as an organisation it has only just emerged. We need every support we can get to turn it into the world's leading platform to access the voices of billions.
Please reach out if you would like to sponsor the report, write about the findings, or to buy access the dataset. All revenues are directly re-invested into the purpose and mission of the DPI.
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Contact us to learn more about our data offerings, licensing, and custom research.
