United States vs Vanuatu: Universal right to vote in practice

United States

in 2025

Vanuatu

in 2025

United States rank

1st

Vanuatu rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

United States
Vanuatu

How they compare

United States currently reports 2 against 2 in Vanuatu, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 120 shared years of data; in 1906 it was Vanuatu ahead.

United States ranks 1st and Vanuatu ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in United States
Universal right to vote in practice in Vanuatu
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).