Barbados vs Laos: Universal right to vote in practice

Barbados

in 2025

Laos

in 2025

Barbados rank

1st

Laos rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Barbados
Laos

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 2 against 2 in Laos, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 187 shared years of data; in 1839 it was Laos ahead.

Barbados ranks 1st and Laos ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Barbados
Universal right to vote in practice in Laos
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).