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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 183
Median score: 54.8
Top ranked: Iceland

Year2005

Showing 2005 snapshot.

Year

2005

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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 · 2005

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year2005

Snapshot: 2005

Rows10 25 50 100

217 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
1	Iceland Europe	Europe	85.1 ± 2
2	Norway Europe	Europe	84.0 ± 2
3	Denmark Europe	Europe	83.7 ± 2
4	Sweden Europe	Europe	83.3 ± 2
5	Finland Europe	Europe	82.3 ± 2
6	Austria Europe	Europe	80.3 ± 2
7	Netherlands Europe	Europe	80.1 ± 2
8	Luxembourg Europe	Europe	78.6 ± 2
9	New Zealand Oceania	Oceania	78.0 ± 5
10	Belgium Europe	Europe	77.7 ± 2
11	Switzerland Europe	Europe	77.5 ± 2
12	Germany Europe	Europe	77.5 ± 2
13	Australia Oceania	Oceania	77.1 ± 5
14	Ireland Europe	Europe	76.9 ± 2
15	Canada North America	North America	76.4 ± 2
16	United Kingdom Europe	Europe	76.3 ± 2
17	Spain Europe	Europe	74.8 ± 2
18	Estonia Europe	Europe	74.7 ± 2
19	Barbados North America	North America	74.2 ± 5
20	Japan Asia	Asia	74.1 ± 5
21	France Europe	Europe	74.0 ± 2
22	United States North America	North America	73.4 ± 5
23	Portugal Europe	Europe	73.2 ± 2
24	Slovenia Europe	Europe	72.9 ± 2
25	Singapore Asia	Asia	72.7 ± 5
26	Czechia Europe	Europe	71.4 ± 2
27	Hungary Europe	Europe	70.8 ± 2
28	Lithuania Europe	Europe	70.7 ± 2
29	Latvia Europe	Europe	70.0 ± 2
30	Italy Europe	Europe	69.8 ± 2
31	Malta Europe	Europe	69.8 ± 2
32	Cyprus Europe · Asia	Europe · Asia	68.4 ± 2
33	Slovak Republic Europe	Europe	67.9 ± 2
34	Israel Asia	Asia	67.6 ± 2
35	Greece Europe	Europe	67.5 ± 2
36	Korea, Rep. Asia	Asia	67.0 ± 2
37	Dominica North America	North America	66.3 ± 5
38	Poland Europe	Europe	66.3 ± 2
39	Chile South America	South America	66.1 ± 2
40	St. Vincent and the Grenadines North America	North America	66.0 ± 5
41	Croatia Europe	Europe	66.0 ± 2
42	Cuba North America	North America	65.8 ± 5
43	Uruguay South America	South America	65.8 ± 2
44	Brunei Darussalam Asia	Asia	65.7 ± 5
45	Palau Oceania	Oceania	65.6 ± 5
46	Seychelles Africa	Africa	65.1 ± 5
47	Bulgaria Europe	Europe	64.3 ± 2
48	Argentina South America	South America	63.9 ± 2
49	Bahamas, The North America	North America	63.9 ± 5
50	Belarus Europe	Europe	63.8 ± 2