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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 122
Median score: 54.1
Top ranked: Sweden

Year1987

Showing 1987 snapshot.

Year

1987

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19651970198019902000201020202026Live

Global promises

4,000 commitments across 217 countries

43%

achieved or on track

Achieved: 1,399 · 35.0%
On track: 301 · 7.5%
Failing: 1,817 · 45.4%
Broken: 14 · 0.4%
Tracking: 469 · 11.7%
Not verifiable: 0 · 0.0%

4,000 of 4,000 commitments are linked to a Sworn metric and verifiable against official data. See methodology for how each status is computed.

World trend

Median Sworn Score, all scored countries

55.5

-2.4 since 1965

Line shows the median Sworn Score across 192 scored countries each year. Shaded band is the inter-quartile range (25th–75th percentile) — the spread of the “typical half” of the world. Each year uses that year’s frozen methodology bounds, so the trend reflects real change, not a moving yardstick.

Green list & Red list · 2021 → 2026

Who’s moving the most, up and down.

Top 10 countries that improved the most and fell the most over the last 5 years.

All movers

Green list

59 countries improved

Top 10 that improved the most

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Red list

133 countries declined

Top 10 that fell the most

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Rankings · 1987

Sortable country leaderboard

Click a country for its full profile. Click a column header to sort.

Year1987

Snapshot: 1987

Rows10 25 50 100

54 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
29	Seychelles Africa	Africa	66.7 ± 5
33	Libya Africa	Africa	64.0 ± 5
40	Mauritius Africa	Africa	61.8 ± 5
46	Algeria Africa	Africa	59.8 ± 5
50	Cabo Verde Africa	Africa	57.8 ± 5
55	Tunisia Africa	Africa	56.4 ± 2
59	Botswana Africa	Africa	54.6 ± 5
61	Eswatini Africa	Africa	54.1 ± 5
63	South Africa Africa	Africa	54.0 ± 5
67	Gabon Africa	Africa	52.5 ± 5
71	Lesotho Africa	Africa	51.4 ± 2
72	Congo, Rep. Africa	Africa	50.6 ± 5
76	Zimbabwe Africa	Africa	49.1 ± 5
79	Kenya Africa	Africa	47.4 ± 5
81	Gambia, The Africa	Africa	45.3 ± 5
82	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	45.3 ± 5
84	Morocco Africa	Africa	44.9 ± 5
87	Zambia Africa	Africa	43.4 ± 5
88	Cameroon Africa	Africa	43.0 ± 5
90	Ghana Africa	Africa	42.6 ± 5
91	Madagascar Africa	Africa	42.2 ± 5
92	Rwanda Africa	Africa	42.0 ± 5
93	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	41.6 ± 5
95	Nigeria Africa	Africa	40.1 ± 5
96	Tanzania Africa	Africa	39.7 ± 5
97	Congo, Dem. Rep. Africa	Africa	39.4 ± 5
98	Guinea-Bissau Africa	Africa	39.0 ± 5
99	Senegal Africa	Africa	38.1 ± 5
102	Malawi Africa	Africa	36.7 ± 5
103	Mauritania Africa	Africa	36.0 ± 5
104	Uganda Africa	Africa	35.2 ± 5
105	Togo Africa	Africa	34.7 ± 5
108	Burundi Africa	Africa	33.7 ± 5
109	Benin Africa	Africa	32.7 ± 5
110	Sierra Leone Africa	Africa	32.6 ± 5
112	Comoros Africa	Africa	30.9 ± 5
113	Chad Africa	Africa	30.0 ± 5
114	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	28.7 ± 5
115	Guinea Africa	Africa	28.4 ± 5
116	Niger Africa	Africa	27.4 ± 5
117	Mali Africa	Africa	26.0 ± 5
119	Ethiopia Africa	Africa	20.8 ± 5
122	Central African Republic Africa	Africa	15.0 ± 5
—	Angola Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data
—	Djibouti Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data
—	Equatorial Guinea Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data
—	Eritrea Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data
—	Liberia Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data
—	Mozambique Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data
—	Namibia Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data