Botswana vs Cote d'Ivoire: Universal right to vote in practice

Botswana

in 2025

Cote d'Ivoire

in 2025

Botswana rank

1st

Cote d'Ivoire rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Botswana
Cote d'Ivoire

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 2 against 2 in Cote d'Ivoire, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 133 shared years of data; in 1893 it was Cote d'Ivoire ahead.

Botswana ranks 1st and Cote d'Ivoire ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Botswana
Universal right to vote in practice in Cote d'Ivoire
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).