Ethiopia vs Rwanda: Universal right to vote in practice

Ethiopia

in 2025

Rwanda

in 2025

Ethiopia rank

1st

Rwanda rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Ethiopia
Rwanda

How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 2 against 2 in Rwanda, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 110 shared years of data; in 1916 it was Rwanda ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 1st and Rwanda ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Ethiopia
Universal right to vote in practice in Rwanda
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).