The "democracy vs autocracy" graph seems disingenuous, as it shows the _sum_ of scores and not the mean. If the number of democracies has been increasing, the g

The "democracy vs autocracy" graph seems disingenuous, as it shows the _sum_ of scores and not the mean. If the number of democracies has been increasing, the graph may show the same trend it shows without the democracies actually being better. And the biggest shift in the graph happens, unsurprisingly, when the USSR falls, which switches the score of all its countries from one side to the other.