Botswana vs Namibia: Universal right to vote in practice

Botswana

in 2025

Namibia

in 2025

Botswana rank

1st

Namibia rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Botswana
Namibia

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 2 against 2 in Namibia, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 141 shared years of data; in 1885 it was Namibia ahead.

Botswana ranks 1st and Namibia ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Botswana
Universal right to vote in practice in Namibia
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).