Bulgaria vs Guatemala: Universal right to vote in practice

Bulgaria

in 2025

Guatemala

in 2025

Bulgaria rank

1st

Guatemala rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Bulgaria
Guatemala

How they compare

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

The two have swapped places 6 times across 148 shared years of data; in 1878 it was Guatemala ahead.

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

Individual pages

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