Sworn Score
Country profile
Nigeria
Africa · Capital: Abuja
Score 34.4 ± 2 · Rank #173 of scored countries in 2025.
Based on 120/123 indicators, avg data age 4.6 years.
Category breakdown
How Nigeria 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
22.9
Economy
53.5
Governance
29.9
Education
23.0
Infrastructure
22.6
Environment
55.2
Rights
36.1
Promises
Latest promise updates
2 achieved · 1 on track · 15 failing
History
Nigeria — 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 1967: +5.8 points
| Year | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — |
| 1967 | 27.8 | 35 |
| 1968 | 13.3 | 40 |
| 1969 | 8.9 | 47 |
| 1970 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — |
| 1977 | 35.1 | 56 |
| 1978 | 37.3 | 57 |
| 1979 | 39.8 | 56 |
| 1980 | — | — |
| 1981 | — | — |
| 1982 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — |
| 1984 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37.3 | 87 |
| 1986 | 39.0 | 93 |
| 1987 | 40.1 | 95 |
| 1988 | 40.5 | 96 |
| 1989 | 42.1 | 98 |
| 1990 | 46.9 | 107 |
| 1991 | 49.0 | 106 |
| 1992 | 49.8 | 112 |
| 1993 | 49.1 | 123 |
| 1994 | 49.7 | 121 |
| 1995 | 49.9 | 125 |
| 1996 | 38.8 | 140 |
| 1997 | 36.6 | 151 |
| 1998 | 36.8 | 150 |
| 1999 | 36.4 | 152 |
| 2000 | 37.7 | 145 |
| 2001 | 37.9 | 145 |
| 2002 | 37.2 | 150 |
| 2003 | 38.5 | 147 |
| 2004 | 39.0 | 145 |
| 2005 | 39.2 | 149 |
| 2006 | 39.9 | 148 |
| 2007 | 39.1 | 150 |
| 2008 | 38.3 | 156 |
| 2009 | 38.3 | 156 |
| 2010 | 38.3 | 156 |
| 2011 | 37.5 | 159 |
| 2012 | 37.2 | 160 |
| 2013 | 36.7 | 159 |
| 2014 | 36.8 | 159 |
| 2015 | 35.6 | 167 |
| 2016 | 34.7 | 169 |
| 2017 | 34.5 | 170 |
| 2018 | 35.6 | 170 |
| 2019 | 35.5 | 170 |
| 2020 | 34.1 | 170 |
| 2021 | 34.3 | 173 |
| 2022 | 34.5 | 173 |
| 2023 | 34.2 | 173 |
| 2024 | 33.9 | 174 |
| 2025 | 34.4 | 173 |
| 2026 | 33.6 | 171 |