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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 57
Median score: 53.2
Top ranked: Sweden

Year1976

Showing 1976 snapshot.

Year

1976

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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 · 1976

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year1976

Snapshot: 1976

Rows10 25 50 100

217 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
1	Sweden Europe	Europe	76.9 ± 5
2	Uruguay South America	South America	73.8 ± 5
3	Argentina South America	South America	72.4 ± 5
4	Jamaica North America	North America	72.4 ± 5
5	France Europe	Europe	72.3 ± 5
6	United Kingdom Europe	Europe	70.8 ± 5
7	Spain Europe	Europe	69.9 ± 5
8	Kuwait Asia	Asia	69.5 ± 5
9	Malaysia Asia	Asia	69.2 ± 5
10	Sri Lanka Asia	Asia	67.3 ± 5
11	Venezuela, RB South America	South America	67.2 ± 5
12	Panama North America	North America	67.0 ± 5
13	Iceland Europe	Europe	66.3 ± 5
14	Greece Europe	Europe	64.4 ± 5
15	Mauritius Africa	Africa	63.3 ± 5
16	United States North America	North America	63.1 ± 5
17	Paraguay South America	South America	62.2 ± 5
18	Libya Africa	Africa	59.4 ± 5
19	Lesotho Africa	Africa	58.4 ± 5
20	Honduras North America	North America	57.8 ± 5
21	Peru South America	South America	57.0 ± 5
22	Guyana South America	South America	57.0 ± 5
23	Papua New Guinea Oceania	Oceania	56.5 ± 5
24	Algeria Africa	Africa	56.1 ± 5
25	Nicaragua North America	North America	55.4 ± 5
26	Kenya Africa	Africa	54.8 ± 5
27	El Salvador North America	North America	54.7 ± 5
28	Thailand Asia	Asia	54.5 ± 5
29	Dominican Republic North America	North America	53.2 ± 5
30	Tunisia Africa	Africa	53.1 ± 5
31	Madagascar Africa	Africa	50.9 ± 5
32	Ghana Africa	Africa	50.0 ± 5
33	Guatemala North America	North America	49.8 ± 5
34	Botswana Africa	Africa	49.6 ± 5
35	Indonesia Asia	Asia	49.4 ± 5
36	Myanmar Asia	Asia	49.4 ± 5
37	Cameroon Africa	Africa	46.5 ± 5
38	Turkiye Asia · Europe	Asia · Europe	46.3 ± 5
39	Benin Africa	Africa	45.2 ± 5
40	Rwanda Africa	Africa	44.5 ± 5
41	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	42.8 ± 5
42	Bangladesh Asia	Asia	40.6 ± 5
43	Iran, Islamic Rep. Asia	Asia	39.9 ± 5
44	Morocco Africa	Africa	39.7 ± 5
45	India Asia	Asia	39.2 ± 5
46	Uganda Africa	Africa	38.6 ± 5
47	Jordan Asia	Asia	38.5 ± 5
48	Iraq Asia	Asia	38.4 ± 5
49	Togo Africa	Africa	37.5 ± 5
50	Syrian Arab Republic Asia	Asia	37.1 ± 5