Nigeria vs Seychelles: Universal right to vote in practice

Nigeria

in 2025

Seychelles

in 2025

Nigeria rank

1st

Seychelles rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Nigeria
Seychelles

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 2 against 2 in Seychelles, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 112 shared years of data; in 1914 it was Seychelles ahead.

Nigeria ranks 1st and Seychelles ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Nigeria
Universal right to vote in practice in Seychelles
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).