Bulgaria vs Italy: Universal right to vote

Bulgaria
2
in 2025
Italy
2
in 2025
Bulgaria rank
1st
Italy rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Italy
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How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 2 against 2 in Italy, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 148 shared years of data; in 1878 it was Italy ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 1st and Italy 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.