Iceland vs Japan: Universal right to vote in practice

Iceland

in 2025

Japan

in 2025

Iceland rank

1st

Japan rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Iceland
Japan

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 2 against 2 in Japan, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 182 shared years of data; in 1844 it was Japan ahead.

Iceland ranks 1st and Japan ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Iceland
Universal right to vote in practice in Japan
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).