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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 166
Median score: 58.7
Top ranked: Sweden

Year1995

Showing 1995 snapshot.

Year

1995

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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 · 1995

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year1995

Snapshot: 1995

Rows10 25 50 100

54 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
30	Seychelles Africa	Africa	68.8 ± 5
47	Mauritius Africa	Africa	65.5 ± 5
65	Cabo Verde Africa	Africa	61.9 ± 5
79	Tunisia Africa	Africa	59.1 ± 2
85	South Africa Africa	Africa	58.4 ± 2
87	Lesotho Africa	Africa	58.2 ± 2
99	Botswana Africa	Africa	56.0 ± 2
100	Namibia Africa	Africa	55.9 ± 2
104	Libya Africa	Africa	53.8 ± 5
107	Algeria Africa	Africa	52.6 ± 2
111	Kenya Africa	Africa	52.4 ± 5
112	Zimbabwe Africa	Africa	52.3 ± 5
113	Ghana Africa	Africa	52.0 ± 2
116	Madagascar Africa	Africa	51.8 ± 2
117	Eswatini Africa	Africa	51.2 ± 5
118	Tanzania Africa	Africa	51.0 ± 2
119	Gabon Africa	Africa	50.9 ± 5
123	Somalia, Fed. Rep. Africa	Africa	50.0 ± 5
124	Burundi Africa	Africa	50.0 ± 5
125	Nigeria Africa	Africa	49.9 ± 5
127	Malawi Africa	Africa	49.1 ± 5
128	Cameroon Africa	Africa	48.8 ± 2
129	Mauritania Africa	Africa	48.7 ± 5
130	Congo, Rep. Africa	Africa	48.5 ± 5
131	Morocco Africa	Africa	48.3 ± 2
133	Zambia Africa	Africa	47.5 ± 2
134	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	47.5 ± 2
138	Rwanda Africa	Africa	46.0 ± 5
139	Uganda Africa	Africa	45.8 ± 2
141	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	45.7 ± 2
142	Gambia, The Africa	Africa	45.3 ± 5
143	Comoros Africa	Africa	45.2 ± 5
144	Mozambique Africa	Africa	45.1 ± 5
145	Guinea-Bissau Africa	Africa	45.1 ± 5
147	Sierra Leone Africa	Africa	44.4 ± 5
148	Guinea Africa	Africa	44.1 ± 5
149	Togo Africa	Africa	44.0 ± 5
150	Benin Africa	Africa	43.6 ± 5
151	Equatorial Guinea Africa	Africa	43.1 ± 5
152	Senegal Africa	Africa	43.1 ± 5
156	Mali Africa	Africa	41.5 ± 5
157	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	40.8 ± 2
158	Central African Republic Africa	Africa	39.4 ± 5
159	Ethiopia Africa	Africa	39.1 ± 5
160	Angola Africa	Africa	38.3 ± 5
161	Congo, Dem. Rep. Africa	Africa	38.0 ± 5
162	Niger Africa	Africa	36.7 ± 2
163	Chad Africa	Africa	36.7 ± 5
164	Eritrea Africa	Africa	33.4 ± 5
—	Djibouti Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data