India vs Iran: Universal right to vote

India

in 2025

Iran

in 2025

India rank

1st

Iran rank

1st

Universal right to vote over time

India
Iran

How they compare

India currently reports 2 against 2 in Iran, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Iran ahead.

India ranks 1st and Iran ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in India
Universal right to vote in Iran
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.