Netherlands vs Turkey: Universal right to vote

Netherlands
2
in 2025
Turkey
2
in 2025
Netherlands rank
1st
Turkey rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • Netherlands
  • Turkey
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How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 2 against 2 in Turkey, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 105 shared years of data; in 1921 it was Turkey ahead.

Netherlands ranks 1st and Turkey 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.