Electoral Democracies (1997-2007)

Electoral Democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa (1997-2005)

"Free" Democracies

"Partly Free" Democracies

1997-1998 (17)	1998-1999 (17)	1999-2000 (20)	2000-2001 (21)	2001-2002 (20)	2002-2003 (20)	2003-2004 (19)	2004-2005 (20)
Benin	Benin	Benin	Benin	Benin	Benin	Benin	Benin
Botswana	Botswana	Botswana	Botswana	Botswana	Botswana	Botswana	Botswana
Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Cape Verde
Central African Republic	Central African Republic	Central African Republic	Central African Republic	Djibouti	Ghana	Ghana	Comoros
Ghana	Ghana	Djibouti	Djibouti	The Gambia	Guinea-Bissau	Kenya	Ghana
Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	Ghana	Ghana	Ghana	Kenya	Lesotho	Kenya
Lesotho	Liberia	Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	Lesotho	Madagascar	Lesotho
Liberia	Madagascar	Liberia	Liberia	Madagascar	Madagascar	Malawi	Madagascar
Madagascar	Malawi	Madagascar	Madagascar	Malawi	Malawi	Mali	Malawi
Malawi	Mali	Malawi	Malawi	Mali	Mali	Mauritius	Mali
Mali	Mauritius	Mali	Mali	Mauritius	Mauritius	Mozambique	Mauritius
Mauritius	Mozambique	Mauritius	Mauritius	Mozambique	Mozambique	Namibia	Mozambique
Mozambique	Namibia	Mozambique	Mozambique	Namibia	Namibia	Niger	Namibia
Namibia	São Tomé & Príncipe	Namibia	Namibia	Niger	Niger	Nigeria	Niger
São Tomé & Príncipe	Seychelles	Niger	Niger	Nigeria	Nigeria	São Tomé & Príncipe	Nigeria
Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Nigeria	Nigeria	São Tomé & Príncipe	São Tomé & Príncipe	Senegal	São Tomé & Príncipe
South Africa	South Africa	São Tomé & Príncipe	São Tomé & Príncipe	Senegal	Senegal	Seychelles	Senegal
		Seychelles	Senegal	Seychelles	Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Seychelles
		Sierra Leone	Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Sierra Leone	South Africa	Sierra Leone
		South Africa	Sierra Leone	South Africa	South Africa		South Africa
			South Africa