The three major military powers, the US, China and Russia, decreased their military personnel rates by an average 73% since the end of World War II. Though democracy itself isn’t a measure of peace, democratic governments tend to be more stable, with less internal unrest or conflict amongst each other. The world has been more democratic on average since 1993 than in any of the last 100 years. Democracy has also been on the rise, with 1989 marking the transition to more democratic governments than autocratic.
This suggests an increase in the use of diplomacy as a dispute resolution tool. The number of alliance agreements in place in 2012 was 77 times the amount of alliances in 1918. Supporting the idea that the world has become increasingly peaceful since World War I is the shift away from large-scale violent deaths and heavy militarisation, towards democracy.īattle deaths in the last 25 years make up only 3% of battle deaths in the last 100 years, or 7% excluding World War II deaths.
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