Botswana vs Nigeria: Women's universal right to vote

Botswana

in 2025

Nigeria

in 2025

Botswana rank

1st

Nigeria rank

1st

Women's universal right to vote over time

Botswana
Nigeria

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 1 against 1 in Nigeria, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 112 shared years of data; in 1914 it was Nigeria ahead.

Botswana ranks 1st and Nigeria ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Women's universal right to vote in Botswana
Women's universal right to vote in Nigeria
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Women's 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 all women are allowed to vote in national elections. It neither considers informal restrictions nor legal restrictions based on age, criminal conviction, disability, and local residency.