Germany vs Papua New Guinea: Universal right to vote

Germany
2
in 2025
Papua New Guinea
2
in 2025
Germany rank
1st
Papua New Guinea rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • Germany
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Germany currently reports 2 against 2 in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 97 shared years of data; in 1884 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 1st and Papua New Guinea 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.