{"chart":{"title":"Women's universal right to vote","subtitle":"This does not consider elections not being held, informal restrictions, or legal restrictions based on age, criminal conviction, disability, and local residency.","citation":"Lexical Index (2026)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-suffrage-women-lexical","selection":["Argentina","Australia","Botswana","China"]},"columns":{"Universal right to vote for women":{"titleShort":"Universal right to vote for women","titleLong":"Universal right to vote for women","descriptionShort":"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.","descriptionProcessing":"Data for former USSR member states has been obtained by imputing the values of the USSR. This includes: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Moldova.\n\nData for former Czechoslovakia member states has been obtained by imputing the values of Czechoslovakia. This includes: Czech Republic and Slovakia.\n\nData for former Yugoslavia member states has been obtained by imputing the values of Yugoslavia. This includes: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and North Macedonia.","unit":"","timespan":"1789-2025","type":"Integer","owidVariableId":1210553,"shortName":"female_suffrage_lied","lastUpdated":"2026-04-02","nextUpdate":"2027-04-02","citationShort":"Lexical Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Lexical Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. “Universal right to vote for women” [dataset]. Lexical Index, “Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy (LIED) v6.9” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1210553.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}