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By international standards, 2016 U.S. voter turnout was low

Country % of voting age population % of registered voters
Iceland (2017) NA 81.20%
Japan (2017) NA 53.65%
Turkey (2018)* 88.97% 86.24%
Sweden (2018) 82.08% 87.18%
Australia (2019)* 80.79% 91.89%
Belgium (2019)* 77.94% 88.38%
South Korea (2017) 77.92% 77.23%
Israel (2020) 77.90% 71.52%
Netherlands (2017) 77.31% 81.93%
Denmark (2019) 76.38% 84.60%
Hungary (2018) 71.65% 69.68%
Norway (2017) 70.59% 78.22%
Finland (2019) 69.43% 68.73%
Germany (2017) 69.11% 76.15%
France (2017) 67.93% 74.56%
Mexico (2018)* 65.98% 63.43%
Poland (2020) 65.40% 68.18%
Slovakia (2020) 65.39% 65.81%
Italy (2018) 65.28% 73.05%
Austria (2019) 64.40% 75.59%
Greece (2019)* 63.53% 57.78%
New Zealand (2020) 63.16% 68.35%
Canada (2019) 62.42% 67.04%
United Kingdom (2019) 62.32% 67.86%
Portugal (2019) 61.13% 48.60%
Spain (2019) 60.29% 66.23%
Lithuania (2019) 59.28% 53.88%
Czech Republic (2017) 58.02% 60.79%
Colombia (2018) 57.28% 53.38%
Ireland (2020) 56.65% 62.71%
Estonia (2019) 56.45% 63.67%
United States (2016) 55.72% 86.80%
Slovenia (2018) 54.58% 52.64%
Latvia (2018) 53.55% 54.56%
Chile (2017) 52.20% 49.02%
Luxembourg (2018)* 48.16% 89.66%
Switzerland (2019)* 36.06% 45.12%
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