A country that switches from non-democracy to democracy achieves about 20% higher GDP per capita over the next 30 years.
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![Countries with a higher Democracy index rating have higher GDP](https://thinkbynumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Country-based-correlation-scatter-plot-for-log-GDP-per-capita-and-Democracy-for-the-year.png)
A country that switches from non-democracy to democracy achieves about 20% higher GDP per capita over the next 30 years.