Bulgaria vs Canada: Universal right to vote in practice

Bulgaria

in 2025

Canada

in 2025

Bulgaria rank

1st

Canada rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Bulgaria
Canada

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 2 against 2 in Canada, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 148 shared years of data; in 1878 it was Canada ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 1st and Canada ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Bulgaria
Universal right to vote in practice in Canada
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).