Italy vs Japan: Universal right to vote in practice

Italy

in 2025

Japan

in 2025

Italy rank

1st

Japan rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Italy
Japan

How they compare

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

The two have swapped places 4 times across 165 shared years of data; in 1861 it was Japan ahead.

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

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Italy
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).