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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 51
Median score: 52.8
Top ranked: Iceland

Year1975

Showing 1975 snapshot.

Year

1975

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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 · 1975

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year1975

Snapshot: 1975

Rows10 25 50 100

217 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
1	Iceland Europe	Europe	78.2 ± 5
2	Sweden Europe	Europe	76.8 ± 5
3	Argentina South America	South America	76.1 ± 5
4	Uruguay South America	South America	73.2 ± 5
5	France Europe	Europe	71.7 ± 5
6	Spain Europe	Europe	70.3 ± 5
7	Sri Lanka Asia	Asia	68.8 ± 5
8	United Kingdom Europe	Europe	68.7 ± 5
9	Malaysia Asia	Asia	67.6 ± 5
10	Kuwait Asia	Asia	66.6 ± 5
11	Panama North America	North America	66.6 ± 5
12	Mauritius Africa	Africa	65.5 ± 5
13	Venezuela, RB South America	South America	65.4 ± 5
14	Paraguay South America	South America	62.5 ± 5
15	United States North America	North America	61.9 ± 5
16	Guyana South America	South America	58.6 ± 5
17	Papua New Guinea Oceania	Oceania	58.3 ± 5
18	Peru South America	South America	57.8 ± 5
19	Algeria Africa	Africa	57.0 ± 5
20	Nicaragua North America	North America	56.3 ± 5
21	Honduras North America	North America	56.1 ± 5
22	Kenya Africa	Africa	55.8 ± 5
23	El Salvador North America	North America	54.8 ± 5
24	Dominican Republic North America	North America	53.6 ± 5
25	Thailand Asia	Asia	53.5 ± 5
26	Tunisia Africa	Africa	52.8 ± 5
27	Guatemala North America	North America	51.4 ± 5
28	Ghana Africa	Africa	49.7 ± 5
29	Indonesia Asia	Asia	49.2 ± 5
30	Botswana Africa	Africa	49.2 ± 5
31	Madagascar Africa	Africa	48.9 ± 5
32	Lesotho Africa	Africa	46.8 ± 5
33	Turkiye Asia · Europe	Asia · Europe	45.0 ± 5
34	Benin Africa	Africa	44.9 ± 5
35	Rwanda Africa	Africa	44.5 ± 5
36	Cameroon Africa	Africa	44.4 ± 5
37	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	42.4 ± 5
38	Morocco Africa	Africa	41.2 ± 5
39	Jordan Asia	Asia	41.1 ± 5
40	Uganda Africa	Africa	39.6 ± 5
41	India Asia	Asia	39.4 ± 5
42	Togo Africa	Africa	38.0 ± 5
43	Iraq Asia	Asia	36.1 ± 5
44	Mali Africa	Africa	33.7 ± 5
45	Syrian Arab Republic Asia	Asia	33.6 ± 5
46	Niger Africa	Africa	32.9 ± 5
47	Pakistan Asia	Asia	32.8 ± 5
48	Iran, Islamic Rep. Asia	Asia	32.8 ± 5
49	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	32.7 ± 5
50	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	27.7 ± 5