Samoa vs Western Sahara: Universal right to vote

Samoa
2
in 2025
Western Sahara
2
in 2025
Samoa rank
1st
Western Sahara rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • Samoa
  • Western Sahara
00.511.52190219632025

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 2 against 2 in Western Sahara, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1963 it was Western Sahara ahead.

Samoa ranks 1st and Western Sahara 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.