Laos vs Liberia: Universal right to vote in practice

Laos

in 2025

Liberia

in 2025

Laos rank

1st

Liberia rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Laos
Liberia

How they compare

Laos currently reports 2 against 2 in Liberia, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 205 shared years of data; in 1821 it was Liberia ahead.

Laos ranks 1st and Liberia ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Laos
Universal right to vote in practice in Liberia
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).