Sri Lanka vs Yemen: Universal right to vote

Sri Lanka

in 2025

Yemen

in 2025

Sri Lanka rank

1st

Yemen rank

1st

Universal right to vote over time

Sri Lanka
Yemen

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 2 against 2 in Yemen, a difference of 0.

Across all 36 years both countries report, Yemen has been ahead every year.

Sri Lanka ranks 1st and Yemen ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in Sri Lanka
Universal right to vote in Yemen
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.