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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 187
Median score: 55.0
Top ranked: Sweden

Year2014

Showing 2014 snapshot.

Year

2014

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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 · 2014

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year2014

Snapshot: 2014

Rows10 25 50 100

217 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
1	Sweden Europe	Europe	81.8 ± 2
2	Denmark Europe	Europe	80.8 ± 2
3	Norway Europe	Europe	80.6 ± 2
4	Finland Europe	Europe	79.1 ± 2
5	Netherlands Europe	Europe	78.9 ± 2
6	Luxembourg Europe	Europe	78.4 ± 2
7	Iceland Europe	Europe	78.4 ± 2
8	New Zealand Oceania	Oceania	78.3 ± 2
9	Switzerland Europe	Europe	78.2 ± 2
10	Germany Europe	Europe	77.8 ± 2
11	Australia Oceania	Oceania	76.9 ± 5
12	Austria Europe	Europe	76.9 ± 2
13	Belgium Europe	Europe	76.9 ± 2
14	Hong Kong SAR, China Asia	Asia	76.2 ± 5
15	United Kingdom Europe	Europe	74.2 ± 2
16	Ireland Europe	Europe	73.9 ± 2
17	Canada North America	North America	73.5 ± 2
18	Singapore Asia	Asia	73.3 ± 5
19	Slovenia Europe	Europe	73.1 ± 2
20	Estonia Europe	Europe	72.5 ± 2
21	France Europe	Europe	71.8 ± 2
22	United States North America	North America	71.5 ± 2
23	Japan Asia	Asia	70.8 ± 2
24	Czechia Europe	Europe	70.8 ± 2
25	Malta Europe	Europe	70.3 ± 2
26	Portugal Europe	Europe	69.3 ± 2
27	Spain Europe	Europe	69.0 ± 2
28	Lithuania Europe	Europe	68.8 ± 2
29	Barbados North America	North America	68.8 ± 5
30	Poland Europe	Europe	68.5 ± 2
31	Latvia Europe	Europe	67.8 ± 2
32	Korea, Rep. Asia	Asia	67.7 ± 2
33	Uruguay South America	South America	67.6 ± 2
34	Hungary Europe	Europe	67.4 ± 2
35	Slovak Republic Europe	Europe	67.2 ± 2
36	Palau Oceania	Oceania	66.9 ± 5
37	Cyprus Europe · Asia	Europe · Asia	66.1 ± 2
38	St. Vincent and the Grenadines North America	North America	65.9 ± 5
39	Israel Asia	Asia	65.8 ± 2
40	Italy Europe	Europe	65.6 ± 2
41	Chile South America	South America	65.5 ± 2
42	Brunei Darussalam Asia	Asia	64.8 ± 5
43	Costa Rica North America	North America	64.3 ± 2
44	United Arab Emirates Asia	Asia	63.9 ± 2
45	Croatia Europe	Europe	63.8 ± 2
46	Dominica North America	North America	63.7 ± 5
47	Belarus Europe	Europe	63.7 ± 2
48	Antigua and Barbuda North America	North America	63.5 ± 5
49	Qatar Asia	Asia	63.3 ± 2
50	Grenada North America	North America	62.9 ± 5