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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 182
Median score: 55.6
Top ranked: Sweden

Year2008

Showing 2008 snapshot.

Year

2008

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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 · 2008

Sortable country leaderboard

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

Year2008

Snapshot: 2008

Rows10 25 50 100

54 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
53	Seychelles Africa	Africa	62.8 ± 5
59	Mauritius Africa	Africa	61.6 ± 2
74	Tunisia Africa	Africa	58.0 ± 2
94	Cabo Verde Africa	Africa	55.5 ± 2
104	Botswana Africa	Africa	53.9 ± 2
111	South Africa Africa	Africa	52.0 ± 2
115	Namibia Africa	Africa	50.8 ± 2
117	Algeria Africa	Africa	50.2 ± 2
118	Morocco Africa	Africa	49.9 ± 2
121	Sao Tome and Principe Africa	Africa	48.2 ± 5
122	Libya Africa	Africa	47.5 ± 5
124	Gabon Africa	Africa	47.3 ± 2
128	Ghana Africa	Africa	45.9 ± 2
130	Lesotho Africa	Africa	44.6 ± 2
132	Tanzania Africa	Africa	44.3 ± 2
133	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	43.9 ± 2
135	Madagascar Africa	Africa	43.7 ± 2
137	Rwanda Africa	Africa	43.4 ± 2
138	Eswatini Africa	Africa	43.4 ± 2
140	Kenya Africa	Africa	42.6 ± 2
141	Uganda Africa	Africa	42.4 ± 2
143	Malawi Africa	Africa	41.3 ± 2
145	Cameroon Africa	Africa	41.1 ± 2
146	Senegal Africa	Africa	41.0 ± 2
148	Angola Africa	Africa	39.8 ± 2
149	Burundi Africa	Africa	39.1 ± 5
150	Comoros Africa	Africa	39.1 ± 2
151	Gambia, The Africa	Africa	38.9 ± 2
152	Mozambique Africa	Africa	38.8 ± 2
153	Zambia Africa	Africa	38.8 ± 2
154	Congo, Rep. Africa	Africa	38.6 ± 2
156	Nigeria Africa	Africa	38.3 ± 2
157	Djibouti Africa	Africa	37.5 ± 5
158	Zimbabwe Africa	Africa	36.7 ± 2
160	Benin Africa	Africa	36.4 ± 2
161	Equatorial Guinea Africa	Africa	36.4 ± 5
162	Liberia Africa	Africa	36.3 ± 5
163	Mauritania Africa	Africa	35.8 ± 2
164	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	35.6 ± 2
166	Eritrea Africa	Africa	34.1 ± 5
168	Togo Africa	Africa	33.9 ± 2
169	Sierra Leone Africa	Africa	33.7 ± 2
170	Mali Africa	Africa	33.2 ± 2
171	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	32.3 ± 2
172	Ethiopia Africa	Africa	32.0 ± 2
174	Congo, Dem. Rep. Africa	Africa	30.9 ± 2
175	Niger Africa	Africa	30.1 ± 2
176	Sudan Africa	Africa	29.6 ± 5
177	Guinea-Bissau Africa	Africa	29.1 ± 2
178	Guinea Africa	Africa	28.9 ± 2