Statizoid

United States vs Vanuatu: Universal right to vote

United States
2
in 2025
Vanuatu
2
in 2025
United States rank
1st
Vanuatu rank
1st

Universal right to vote over time

  • United States
  • Vanuatu
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How they compare

United States currently reports 2 against 2 in Vanuatu, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 120 shared years of data; in 1906 it was Vanuatu ahead.

United States ranks 1st and Vanuatu 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.