East Timor vs Tonga: Universal right to vote in practice

East Timor

in 2025

Tonga

in 2025

East Timor rank

1st

Tonga rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

East Timor
Tonga

How they compare

East Timor currently reports 2 against 2 in Tonga, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 167 shared years of data; in 1859 it was Tonga ahead.

East Timor ranks 1st and Tonga ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in East Timor
Universal right to vote in practice in Tonga
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).