Saudi women vote for the first time

Source: AP

When and where did women earn the right to vote?

Learn the year in which women's suffrage was granted, organized by year. New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote (in 1893), while the King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote in 2011. The United States finally began allowing women to vote in 1920, after the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

1893 New Zealand

New Zealand 1902 Australia 1

Australia 1906 Finland

Finland 1913 Norway

Norway 1915 Denmark

Denmark 1917 Canada 2

Canada 1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia

Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia 1919 Netherlands

Netherlands 1920 United States

United States 1921 Sweden

Sweden 1928 Britain, Ireland

Britain, Ireland 1930 South Africa 3

South Africa 1931 Spain

Spain 1934 Turkey

Turkey 1944 France

France 1945 Italy

Italy 1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan

Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan 1949 China

China 1950 India

India 1954 Colombia

Colombia 1957 Malaysia, Zimbabwe

Malaysia, Zimbabwe 1962 Algeria

Algeria 1963 Iran, Morocco

Iran, Morocco 1964 Libya

Libya 1967 Ecuador

Ecuador 1971 Switzerland

Switzerland 1972 Bangladesh

Bangladesh 1974 Jordan

Jordan 1976 Portugal

Portugal 1989 Namibia

Namibia 1990 Western Samoa

Western Samoa 1993 Kazakhstan, Moldova

Kazakhstan, Moldova 2005 Kuwait

Kuwait 2006 United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates 2011 Saudi Arabia4

NOTE: One country does not allow their people, male or female, to vote: Brunei.

1. Australian women, with the exception of aboriginal women, won the vote in 1902. Aborigines, male and female, did not have the right to vote until 1962.

2. Canadian women, with the exception of Canadian Indian women, won the vote in 1917. Canadian Indians, male and female, did not win the vote until 1960. Source: The New York Times, May 22, 2005.

3. South African women won equal voting rights in 1930; however, the voting was restricted to just white people until limited suffrage was offered to other non-black racial groups in the 1950s. Black citizens would not have full voting rights until the end of Apartheid in the 1990s.

4. King Abdullah issued a decree in 2011 ordering that women be allowed to stand as candidates and vote in municipal elections, but their first opportunity did not come until Dec. 2015, almost a year after the king's death in January.