Certainly; but world population is no measure of civilization. Democracies (and secular states) have committed (or supported) attrocities. Hilter was elected to the Reichstag and he commited genocide on an unprecedented scale. Stalin's Russia was a secular state and he killed untold TENS of MILLIONS. The elected U.S. government is reponsible for the encouragment of wars (Iran vs Iraq of the 80's) the outright destruction of a society (Nicauraga) and worse crimes. Meh.