The list below shows the dates on which various countries granted universal women’s suffrage. The Antipodes led the world, with New Zealand allowing women the vote almost ten years before any other country, and in
Europe,
Scandinavia (particularly Finland) were the pioneers. In
Saudia Arabia and
Kuwait women still do not have
suffrage, and in the
United Arab Emirates the government is appointed officially and no
citizen can vote
In most of the
African countries all citizens,
male and
female, were granted the right to vote on the country’s independence:
New Zealand: 1893
Australia: 1902
Finland: 1906
Norway,
Iceland: 1913
Denmark: 1915
Russia: 1917
Canada,
Austria,
Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, 1918
Estonia,
Czechoslovakia, The
Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan, Kenya, Belarus, Ukraine, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) : 1919
U.S., Albania: 1920
Sweden, Lithuania: 1921
Mongolia: 1924
Turkmenistan: 1927
UK,
Ireland: 1928
Ecuador: 1929
Spain, South Africa, Chile, Sri Lanka: 1931
Maldives, Thailand, Uraguay: 1932
Brazil, Cuba,
Turkey: 1934
Mayanmar: 1935
Burma: 1936
Bulgaria, Philippines: 1937
Uzbekistan : 1938
Salvador: 1939
Dominican Republic: 1942
Bulgaria, Jamaica,
France: 1944
Italy,
Japan, Indonesia: 1945
Belgium, Cameroon, D.P.R. of Korea, Djibouti, Guatemala, Panama, Romania, Macedonia:
Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yugoslavia: 1946
Argentina, Malta, Pakistan, Singapore, Liberia: 1947
Israel, Niger, Republic of Korea, Seychelles, Suriname: 1948
China: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Costa Rica: 1949
India: Barbados: Haiti: 1950
Antigua and Barbuda: Dominica: Grenada:
Nepal: Saint Kitts and Nevis: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 1951
Côte d'Ivoire:
Greece: Lebanon: 1952
Mexico: Bhutan: Guyana: Hungary: Syrian Arab Republic:1953
Columbia: 1954
Belize: 1954
Ghana: 1954
Cambodia: 1955
Ethiopia: 1955
Honduras: 1955
Nicaragua: 1955
Peru: 1955
Benin: Comoros: Egypt: Gabon: Mali: Mauritius: Somalia: 1956
Malaysia: 1957
Burkina Faso: Chad: Guinea: Lao : Uganda: 1958
Madagascar: San Marino: Tunisia: United Republic of Tanzania: 1959
Nigeria:
Cyprus: Gambia: Tonga: 1960
Burundi: Malawi: Mauritania: Paraguay: Rwanda: Sierra Leone: 1961
Algeria:
Monaco: Zambia: 1962
Congo: Equatorial Guinea: Fiji:
Iran: Morocco: 1963
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: Papua New Guinea: Sudan: 1964
Afghanistan: Bostwana: Lesotho: 1965
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kiribati: Tuvalu: Yemen (D.P.R.): 1967
Nauru: Swaziland: 1968
Andorra: Yemen (Arab Republic): 1969
Switzerland: 1971
Bangladesh: 1972
Jordan: Solomon Islands: 1974
Angola: Cape Verde: Mozambique: Sao Tome and Principe: Vanuatu: 1975
Portugal: 1976
Guinea Bissau: 1977
Marshall Islands: Micronesia (Fed. States), Palau: 1979
Iraq: 1980
Liechtenstein: 1984
Sources:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Philipps World Atlas