Fiji vs Malawi: Universal right to vote

Fiji

in 2025

Malawi

in 2025

Fiji rank

1st

Malawi rank

1st

Universal right to vote over time

Fiji
Malawi

How they compare

Fiji currently reports 2 against 2 in Malawi, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 135 shared years of data; in 1891 it was Malawi ahead.

Fiji ranks 1st and Malawi ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in Fiji
Universal right to vote in Malawi
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.