Tanzania vs Zambia: Universal right to vote in practice

Tanzania

in 2025

Zambia

in 2025

Tanzania rank

1st

Zambia rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

Tanzania
Zambia

How they compare

Tanzania currently reports 2 against 2 in Zambia, a difference of 0.

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

Tanzania ranks 1st and Zambia ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in Tanzania
Universal right to vote in practice in Zambia
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).