Mauritania vs Spain: Universal right to vote in practice

Mauritania

in 2025

Spain

in 2025

Mauritania rank

1st

Spain rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Mauritania
Spain

How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 2 against 2 in Spain, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 122 shared years of data; in 1904 it was Spain ahead.

Mauritania ranks 1st and Spain ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Mauritania
Universal right to vote in practice in Spain
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).