Most international democracy datasets are organised around sovereign states and therefore exclude or only indirectly capture Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland. This creates a significant coverage gap: these countries have distinctive constitutional arrangements and political institutions but are not included as separate units in the major democracy datasets reviewed here. Extending the framework to them would therefore involve a more substantial data-collection challenge than adding or deepening indicators for the five Nordic states.
Comparable assessment of Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland would most likely require a dedicated data-collection strategy, potentially including an expert survey to generate measures similar to those available for the Nordic states in global datasets such as V-Dem. However, the feasibility of constructing reliable indices would depend on the availability of a sufficiently broad pool of relevant experts and adequate complementary data for each country. If the evidence base proves too limited for robust and comparable quantitative measurement, narrative country profiles may offer a more feasible alternative.