Algeria vs Mauritania: Universal right to vote in practice

Algeria

in 2025

Mauritania

in 2025

Algeria rank

1st

Mauritania rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Algeria
Mauritania

How they compare

Algeria currently reports 2 against 2 in Mauritania, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 122 shared years of data; in 1904 it was Mauritania ahead.

Algeria ranks 1st and Mauritania ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Algeria
Universal right to vote in practice in Mauritania
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Universal right to vote in practice
Source: Lexical Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 198 places, 32,485 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Indicates whether virtually all adult citizens have the right to vote in practice (score 2), only men have broad voting rights in practice (score 1), or there are no broad voting rights in practice (score 0).