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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 180
Median score: 54.2
Top ranked: Iceland

Year2004

Showing 2004 snapshot.

Year

2004

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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 · 2004

Sortable country leaderboard

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

Year2004

Snapshot: 2004

Rows10 25 50 100

54 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
46	Seychelles Africa	Africa	63.5 ± 5
60	Mauritius Africa	Africa	60.4 ± 2
73	Tunisia Africa	Africa	57.0 ± 2
98	Botswana Africa	Africa	53.0 ± 2
102	Cabo Verde Africa	Africa	52.2 ± 2
103	South Africa Africa	Africa	51.9 ± 2
106	Namibia Africa	Africa	51.3 ± 2
114	Algeria Africa	Africa	49.1 ± 2
116	Morocco Africa	Africa	48.6 ± 2
122	Sao Tome and Principe Africa	Africa	47.8 ± 5
123	Libya Africa	Africa	46.9 ± 5
125	Gabon Africa	Africa	46.8 ± 2
126	Lesotho Africa	Africa	45.5 ± 2
127	Ghana Africa	Africa	45.2 ± 2
129	Kenya Africa	Africa	43.7 ± 2
131	Madagascar Africa	Africa	43.1 ± 2
132	Eswatini Africa	Africa	43.1 ± 2
135	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	42.5 ± 2
136	Tanzania Africa	Africa	42.3 ± 2
138	Cameroon Africa	Africa	41.4 ± 2
139	Uganda Africa	Africa	41.2 ± 2
140	Rwanda Africa	Africa	41.2 ± 2
141	Malawi Africa	Africa	40.5 ± 2
143	Congo, Rep. Africa	Africa	39.5 ± 2
145	Nigeria Africa	Africa	39.0 ± 2
146	Comoros Africa	Africa	38.9 ± 2
147	Zimbabwe Africa	Africa	38.7 ± 5
148	Senegal Africa	Africa	38.6 ± 2
149	Gambia, The Africa	Africa	38.2 ± 2
150	Mozambique Africa	Africa	38.1 ± 2
152	Zambia Africa	Africa	36.9 ± 2
153	Burundi Africa	Africa	36.1 ± 5
154	Angola Africa	Africa	36.0 ± 2
155	Eritrea Africa	Africa	36.0 ± 5
156	Benin Africa	Africa	35.8 ± 2
159	Togo Africa	Africa	34.8 ± 2
160	Mauritania Africa	Africa	34.7 ± 2
161	Djibouti Africa	Africa	34.4 ± 5
162	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	33.6 ± 2
164	Sierra Leone Africa	Africa	33.3 ± 2
166	Mali Africa	Africa	32.9 ± 2
167	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	32.9 ± 2
168	Equatorial Guinea Africa	Africa	32.9 ± 5
170	Liberia Africa	Africa	32.4 ± 5
171	Guinea Africa	Africa	30.4 ± 2
172	Sudan Africa	Africa	30.0 ± 5
173	Congo, Dem. Rep. Africa	Africa	29.6 ± 2
174	Ethiopia Africa	Africa	29.6 ± 2
175	Guinea-Bissau Africa	Africa	29.4 ± 2
176	Niger Africa	Africa	28.4 ± 2