Sworn Score
Country profile
Botswana
Africa · Capital: Gaborone
Score 63.4 ± 5 · Rank #34 of scored countries in 1982.
Based on 98/123 indicators, avg data age 1.3 years.
Category breakdown
How Botswana scores across the 7 dimensions
Weight-normalized averages over the indicators that have data. Categories below 70% coverage of their own indicators are suppressed.
Health
54.1
Economy
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Governance
85.5
Education
44.2
Infrastructure
—
Environment
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Rights
70.2
Promises
Latest promise updates
2 achieved · 2 on track · 14 failing
History
Botswana — Sworn Score over time
Each year is a snapshot using that year's methodology (trimmed-bounds over the trailing 5-year value pool). Click a column header to sort.
Change since 1974: +7.7 points
| Year | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — |
| 1967 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — |
| 1970 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — |
| 1974 | 46.5 | 27 |
| 1975 | 49.2 | 30 |
| 1976 | 49.6 | 34 |
| 1977 | 61.6 | 21 |
| 1978 | 59.2 | 24 |
| 1979 | 59.2 | 27 |
| 1980 | 60.7 | 31 |
| 1981 | 62.6 | 37 |
| 1982 | 63.4 | 34 |
| 1983 | 64.0 | 36 |
| 1984 | 54.0 | 47 |
| 1985 | 57.2 | 43 |
| 1986 | 55.9 | 52 |
| 1987 | 54.6 | 59 |
| 1988 | 53.7 | 64 |
| 1989 | 56.3 | 60 |
| 1990 | 54.2 | 79 |
| 1991 | 55.0 | 78 |
| 1992 | 54.4 | 93 |
| 1993 | 53.9 | 101 |
| 1994 | 54.7 | 98 |
| 1995 | 56.0 | 99 |
| 1996 | 56.1 | 76 |
| 1997 | 55.1 | 82 |
| 1998 | 54.1 | 95 |
| 1999 | 55.0 | 89 |
| 2000 | 54.2 | 91 |
| 2001 | 53.5 | 91 |
| 2002 | 53.7 | 91 |
| 2003 | 54.1 | 87 |
| 2004 | 53.0 | 98 |
| 2005 | 53.8 | 99 |
| 2006 | 54.0 | 99 |
| 2007 | 54.1 | 105 |
| 2008 | 53.9 | 104 |
| 2009 | 53.1 | 109 |
| 2010 | 52.2 | 109 |
| 2011 | 52.4 | 112 |
| 2012 | 52.7 | 108 |
| 2013 | 53.4 | 102 |
| 2014 | 53.7 | 103 |
| 2015 | 54.5 | 101 |
| 2016 | 55.4 | 95 |
| 2017 | 54.6 | 102 |
| 2018 | 54.3 | 107 |
| 2019 | 54.3 | 109 |
| 2020 | 53.2 | 106 |
| 2021 | 54.0 | 107 |
| 2022 | 54.1 | 105 |
| 2023 | 53.8 | 105 |
| 2024 | 53.5 | 107 |
| 2025 | 53.8 | 103 |
| 2026 | 54.2 | 101 |