http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/opinion/view/274

This article is titled “It’s a cold, hard fact: our world is becoming a better place”

And it charts how much of the world’s population is under “Full Democracies”,  as if the category itself is indicative of any country’s particular implementation of those claims.  I question this because I’m an American,  where “Full Democracy” has gradually become less and less so.  Fewer and fewer people in those “Full Democracies” (with variations and exceptions of course,  but it is the larger trends of oligarchy and spreading through “Global economics” that spread this around,  and we can see it fruits in the world’s “democracies” becoming increasingly oligarchic and experiencing mass unrest.