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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

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Year2004

Snapshot: 2004

Rows10 25 50 100

217 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
1	Iceland Europe	Europe	84.5 ± 2
2	Norway Europe	Europe	83.7 ± 2
3	Denmark Europe	Europe	83.6 ± 2
4	Sweden Europe	Europe	83.5 ± 2
5	Finland Europe	Europe	82.2 ± 2
6	Netherlands Europe	Europe	80.2 ± 2
7	Austria Europe	Europe	79.1 ± 2
8	Luxembourg Europe	Europe	78.4 ± 2
9	New Zealand Oceania	Oceania	77.8 ± 5
10	Switzerland Europe	Europe	77.6 ± 2
11	Belgium Europe	Europe	77.1 ± 2
12	Germany Europe	Europe	77.0 ± 2
13	Australia Oceania	Oceania	76.9 ± 5
14	Canada North America	North America	76.5 ± 2
15	United Kingdom Europe	Europe	75.6 ± 2
16	Ireland Europe	Europe	74.5 ± 2
17	Spain Europe	Europe	74.3 ± 2
18	Japan Asia	Asia	74.1 ± 5
19	Barbados North America	North America	73.9 ± 5
20	United States North America	North America	73.7 ± 5
21	Estonia Europe	Europe	73.5 ± 2
22	France Europe	Europe	73.4 ± 2
23	Singapore Asia	Asia	73.3 ± 5
24	Portugal Europe	Europe	73.0 ± 2
25	Slovenia Europe	Europe	72.6 ± 2
26	Czechia Europe	Europe	70.0 ± 2
27	Hungary Europe	Europe	70.0 ± 2
28	Italy Europe	Europe	69.8 ± 2
29	Lithuania Europe	Europe	69.7 ± 2
30	Latvia Europe	Europe	69.0 ± 2
31	Malta Europe	Europe	68.7 ± 2
32	Israel Asia	Asia	68.0 ± 2
33	Greece Europe	Europe	67.8 ± 2
34	Cyprus Europe · Asia	Europe · Asia	67.6 ± 2
35	Slovak Republic Europe	Europe	67.3 ± 2
36	Korea, Rep. Asia	Asia	66.6 ± 2
37	Brunei Darussalam Asia	Asia	65.9 ± 5
38	Dominica North America	North America	65.6 ± 5
39	Chile South America	South America	65.4 ± 2
40	Croatia Europe	Europe	65.4 ± 2
41	Poland Europe	Europe	65.3 ± 2
42	Uruguay South America	South America	65.2 ± 2
43	St. Vincent and the Grenadines North America	North America	65.0 ± 5
44	Cuba North America	North America	64.7 ± 5
45	Bulgaria Europe	Europe	63.8 ± 2
46	Seychelles Africa	Africa	63.5 ± 5
47	Qatar Asia	Asia	63.5 ± 5
48	Malaysia Asia	Asia	63.1 ± 2
49	Belarus Europe	Europe	63.1 ± 2
50	Costa Rica North America	North America	63.0 ± 2