| TABLE 1. | |
| Major national polities 1986 [*] | |
| Institutional Democracies | Others |
| India (7) | China (1) |
| United States (10) | U.S.S.R. (1) |
| Brazil (7) | Indonesia (1) |
| Japan (10) | Nigeria (0) |
| German F.R. (10) | Bangladesh (1) |
| Italy (10) | Pakistan (0) |
| United Kingdom (10) | Mexico (3) |
| France (10) | Vietnam (1) |
| Thailand (8) | Philippines no data |
| Egypt (3) | |
| Turkey (4) | |
| Iran (2) | |
| Brackets show Polity II institutional democracy scores for 1986. | |
| (*) Those whose populations ( 49 million or greater) exceeded | |
| one per cent of the world total in 1986, arranged in descending | |
| order of population size. Polities shown here account for 75 | |
| per cent of the world population. |