Germany vs Greece: Universal right to vote in practice

Germany

in 2025

Greece

in 2025

Germany rank

1st

Greece rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Germany
Greece

How they compare

Germany currently reports 2 against 2 in Greece, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 114 shared years of data; in 1867 it was Greece ahead.

Germany ranks 1st and Greece ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Germany
Universal right to vote in practice in Greece
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).