Brazil vs South Africa: Universal right to vote

Brazil
2
in 2025
South Africa
2
in 2025
Brazil rank
1st
South Africa rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • Brazil
  • South Africa
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How they compare

Brazil currently reports 2 against 2 in South Africa, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was South Africa ahead.

Brazil ranks 1st and South Africa ranks 1st of 197 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Universal right to vote
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

Indicates whether virtually all men and women that are citizens are allowed to vote in national elections (score 2), whether it is only men (score 1), or there is no universal rights to vote for either men or women (score 0). It neither considers informal restrictions nor legal restrictions based on age, criminal conviction, disability, and local residency.