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==Timeline of international women's suffrage==
Date listed is the first date women were allowed to participate (by voting) in elections, not the date that women were granted universal suffrage without restrictions.

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{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Country
! Year
! Voting age
|-
|-
|
Afghanistan
|
1963
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Albania
|
1920
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Algeria
|
1962
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
American Samoa
|
1990
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Andorra
|
1970
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Angola
|
1975
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Anguilla
|
1951
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Antigua and Barbuda
|
1951
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Argentina
|
1947
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Armenia
|
1921
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Aruba
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Australia
|
1902
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Austria
|
1918
|
16 years
|-
|-
|
Azerbaijan
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Bahamas, The
|
1960
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Bahrain
|
1973
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Bangladesh
|
1972
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Barbados
|
1950
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Belarus
|
1919
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Belgium
|
1919/1948(c)
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Belize
|
1954
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Benin
|
1956
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Bermuda
|
1944
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Bhutan
|
1953
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Bolivia
|
1938
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
1949
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Botswana
|
1965
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Brazil
|
1931
|
16 years
|-
|-
|
British Virgin Islands
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Brunei
|
1959
|
18 years (village elections only)
|-
|-
|
Bulgaria
|
1944
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Burkina Faso
|
1958
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Burma
|
1922
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Burundi
|
1961
|
a
|-
|-
|
Cambodia
|
1955
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Cameroon
|
1946
|
20 years
|-
|-
|
Canada
|
1917
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Cape Verde
|
1975
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Cayman Islands
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Central African Republic
|
1986
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Chad
|
1958
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Chile
|
1935
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
China
|
1949
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
|
a
|
a
|-
|-
|
Colombia
|
1954
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Comoros
|
1956
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
|
1967
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Congo, Republic of the
|
1963
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Cook Islands
|
1893
|
a
|-
|-
|
Costa Rica
|
1949
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Cote d'Ivoire
|
1952
|
19 years
|-
|-
|
Croatia
|
1945
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Cuba
|
1934
|
16 years
|-
|-
|
Cyprus
|
1960
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Czech Republic
|
1920
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Denmark
|
1915
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Djibouti
|
1946
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Dominica
|
1951
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Dominican Republic
|
1942
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Ecuador
|
1924
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Egypt
|
1956
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
El Salvador
|
1939
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
1963
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Eritrea
|
1955
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Estonia
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Ethiopia
|
1955
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Falkland Islands
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Faroe Islands
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Fiji
|
1963
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Finland
|
1906
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
France
|
1944
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
French Polynesia
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Gabon
|
1956
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Gambia, The
|
1960
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Georgia
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Germany
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Ghana
|
1954
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Gibraltar
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Greece
|
1952
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Greenland
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Grenada
|
1951
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Guam
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Guatemala
|
1946
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Guernsey
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Guinea
|
1958
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Guinea-Bissau
|
1977
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Guyana
|
1953
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Haiti
|
1950
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Holy See (Vatican City)
|
No Suffrage for Women, b
|
limited to cardinals less than 80 years old (male only)
|-
|-
|
Honduras
|
1955
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Hong Kong
|
1949
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Hungary
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Iceland
|
1915
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
India
|
1947
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Indonesia
|
1945
|
17 years (married persons regardless of age)
|-
|-
|
Iran
|
1963
|
16 years
|-
|-
|
Iraq
|
1980
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Ireland
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Isle of Man
|
1881
|
16 years
|-
|-
|
Israel
|
1948
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Italy
|
1946
|
18 years (except in senatorial elections, where minimum age is 25)
|-
|-
|
Jamaica
|
1944
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Japan
|
1945
|
20 years
|-
|-
|
Jersey
|
a
|
16 years
|-
|-
|
Jordan
|
1974
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Kazakhstan
|
1924
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Kenya
|
1963
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Kiribati
|
1967
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Korea, North
|
1946
|
17 years
|-
|-
|
Korea, South
|
1948
|
19 years
|-
|-
|
Kuwait
|
2005
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Kyrgyzstan
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Laos
|
1958
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Latvia
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Lebanon
|
1952
|
21 years (women at age 21 with elementary education)
|-
|-
|
Lesotho
|
1965
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Liberia
|
1946
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Libya
|
1964
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Liechtenstein
|
1984
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Lithuania
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Luxembourg
|
1919
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Macau
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Macedonia
|
1946
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Madagascar
|
1959
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Malawi
|
1961
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Malaysia
|
1957
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Maldives
|
1932
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Mali
|
1956
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Malta
|
1947
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Marshall Islands
|
1979
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Mauritania
|
1961
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Mauritius
|
1956
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Mayotte
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Mexico
|
1947
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Micronesia, Federated States of
|
1979
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Moldova
|
1978
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Monaco
|
1962
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Mongolia
|
1924
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Montenegro
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Montserrat
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Morocco
|
1963
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Mozambique
|
1975
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Namibia
|
1989
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Nauru
|
1968
|
20 years
|-
|-
|
Nepal
|
1951
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Netherlands
|
1919
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Netherlands Antilles
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
New Caledonia
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
New Zealand
|
1893
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Nicaragua
|
1955
|
16 years
|-
|-
|
Niger
|
1948
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Nigeria
|
1958
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Niue
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Norfolk Island
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Northern Mariana Islands
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Norway
|
1913
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Oman
|
2003
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Pakistan
|
1947
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Palau
|
1979
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Panama
|
1941
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Papua New Guinea
|
1964
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Paraguay
|
1961
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Peru
|
1955
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Philippines
|
1937
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Pitcairn Islands
|
1838
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Poland
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Portugal
|
1931
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Puerto Rico
|
1929
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Qatar
|
1997
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Romania
|
1929
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Russia
|
1917
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Rwanda
|
1961
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Saint Barthelemy
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Saint Helena
|
a
|
a
|-
|-
|
Saint Kitts and Nevis
|
1951
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Saint Lucia
|
1924
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Saint Martin
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
|
1951
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Samoa
|
1990
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
San Marino
|
1959
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
São Tomé and Príncipe
|
1975
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Saudi Arabia
|
No Suffrage for Women
|
21 years (male only)
|-
|-
|
Senegal
|
1945
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Serbia
|
1945
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Seychelles
|
1948
|
17 years
|-
|-
|
Sierra Leone
|
1961
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Singapore
|
1947
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Slovakia
|
1920
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Slovenia
|
1945
|
18 years (16 years, if employed)
|-
|-
|
Solomon Islands
|
1974
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Somalia
|
1956
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
South Africa
|
1930 (white women) 1994 (black women)
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Spain
|
1931
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Sri Lanka
|
1931
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Sudan
|
1964
|
17 years
|-
|-
|
Suriname
|
1948
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Swaziland
|
1968
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Sweden
|
1919
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Switzerland
|
1971
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Syria
|
1949
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Taiwan
|
1947
|
20 years
|-
|-
|
Tajikistan
|
1924
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Tanzania
|
1959
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Thailand
|
1932
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Timor-Leste
|
a
|
17 years
|-
|-
|
Togo
|
1945
|
a
|-
|-
|
Tokelau
|
a
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Tonga
|
1960
|
21 years
|-
|-
|
Trinidad and Tobago
|
1946
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Tunisia
|
1959
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Turkey
|
1930
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Turkmenistan
|
1924
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Turks and Caicos Islands
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Tuvalu
|
1967
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Uganda
|
1962
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Ukraine
|
1919
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
United Arab Emirates
|
2006
|
a
|-
|-
|
United Kingdom
|
1918
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
United States
|
1920
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Uruguay
|
1932
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Uzbekistan
|
1938
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Vanuatu
|
1975
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Venezuela
|
1946
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Vietnam
|
1946
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Virgin Islands
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Wallis and Futuna
|
a
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Yemen
|
1967
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Zambia
|
1962
|
18 years
|-
|-
|
Zimbabwe
|
1957
|
18 years
|-
|-
|}
'''Note:''' (a) Data unavailable
(b) Voting is restricted to Cardinals, women are forbidden from being Cardinals.
(c) Was granted in the constitution in 1919, for communal voting. Suffrage for the provincial councils and the national parliament only came in 1948.

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