Burkina Faso vs Rwanda: Universal right to vote

Burkina Faso
2
in 2025
Rwanda
2
in 2025
Burkina Faso rank
1st
Rwanda rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • Burkina Faso
  • Rwanda
00.511.52191619702025

How they compare

Burkina Faso currently reports 2 against 2 in Rwanda, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 92 shared years of data; in 1919 it was Rwanda ahead.

Burkina Faso ranks 1st and Rwanda 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.