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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 164
Median score: 58.0
Top ranked: Sweden

Year1994

Showing 1994 snapshot.

Year

1994

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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 · 1994

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year1994

Snapshot: 1994

Rows10 25 50 100

54 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
30	Seychelles Africa	Africa	68.5 ± 5
47	Mauritius Africa	Africa	64.9 ± 5
57	Cabo Verde Africa	Africa	63.3 ± 5
74	Lesotho Africa	Africa	59.5 ± 2
79	Tunisia Africa	Africa	58.8 ± 2
84	South Africa Africa	Africa	57.7 ± 2
90	Namibia Africa	Africa	56.6 ± 2
98	Botswana Africa	Africa	54.7 ± 2
100	Libya Africa	Africa	54.0 ± 5
104	Kenya Africa	Africa	52.8 ± 5
106	Zimbabwe Africa	Africa	52.6 ± 5
109	Algeria Africa	Africa	52.2 ± 2
111	Madagascar Africa	Africa	52.0 ± 2
114	Ghana Africa	Africa	51.8 ± 2
115	Eswatini Africa	Africa	51.6 ± 5
116	Tanzania Africa	Africa	51.4 ± 2
117	Gabon Africa	Africa	51.4 ± 5
120	Somalia, Fed. Rep. Africa	Africa	50.0 ± 5
121	Nigeria Africa	Africa	49.7 ± 5
123	Burundi Africa	Africa	49.4 ± 5
124	Congo, Rep. Africa	Africa	49.3 ± 5
125	Morocco Africa	Africa	48.6 ± 2
126	Cameroon Africa	Africa	48.5 ± 2
129	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	47.4 ± 2
130	Mauritania Africa	Africa	47.1 ± 5
131	Zambia Africa	Africa	47.1 ± 2
133	Guinea-Bissau Africa	Africa	46.6 ± 5
134	Malawi Africa	Africa	46.5 ± 5
135	Uganda Africa	Africa	46.4 ± 2
136	Gambia, The Africa	Africa	46.4 ± 5
137	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	46.0 ± 2
138	Sierra Leone Africa	Africa	45.3 ± 5
142	Central African Republic Africa	Africa	44.4 ± 5
143	Benin Africa	Africa	44.0 ± 5
145	Guinea Africa	Africa	43.7 ± 5
146	Equatorial Guinea Africa	Africa	43.6 ± 5
147	Comoros Africa	Africa	43.5 ± 5
148	Togo Africa	Africa	43.0 ± 5
149	Mozambique Africa	Africa	43.0 ± 5
152	Senegal Africa	Africa	42.1 ± 5
153	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	41.0 ± 2
154	Mali Africa	Africa	40.7 ± 5
155	Ethiopia Africa	Africa	39.6 ± 5
157	Rwanda Africa	Africa	37.6 ± 5
158	Angola Africa	Africa	37.3 ± 5
159	Chad Africa	Africa	37.0 ± 5
160	Congo, Dem. Rep. Africa	Africa	36.3 ± 5
161	Niger Africa	Africa	35.8 ± 5
163	Eritrea Africa	Africa	33.4 ± 5
—	Djibouti Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data