Iraq vs Zambia: Universal right to vote

Iraq
2
in 2025
Zambia
2
in 2025
Iraq rank
1st
Zambia rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • Iraq
  • Zambia
00.511.52191119682025

How they compare

Iraq currently reports 2 against 2 in Zambia, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 106 shared years of data; in 1920 it was Zambia ahead.

Iraq ranks 1st and Zambia 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.