The Ibrahim Index of African Governance has been created in recognition of the need for a more objective and quantifiable method of measuring governance in the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The Ibrahim Index provides both a new definition of governance, as well as a comprehensive set of governance measures. Based on five categories of essential political goods, each country is assessed against 58 individual measures, capturing clear, objective outcomes.

* Safety and Security
* Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption
* Participation and Human Rights
* Sustainable Economic Development
* Human Development

Key features of the Ibrahim Index include:
Comprehensiveness – the large number of measures included in the Ibrahim Index makes it one of the most comprehensive assessments of the governance in sub-Saharan African ever undertaken. Focus on political goods – the Ibrahim Index uniquely defines governance as the delivery of key political goods, capturing defined, measurable outcomes rather than subjective assessments.

Geographical coverage – the Ibrahim Index examines all 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa for three years (and hereafter annually), making it among the most complete and up-to-date indexes ever compiled.

Ranking – The Ibrahim Index is the first such attempt to explicitly rank sub-Saharan African countries according to governance quality.

Progressiveness - the Ibrahim Index will be expanded and refined on an annual basis, offering a continually improving assessment of governance.

On this website you can explore the full data set for the 2007 Ibrahim Index (using a dataset from the year 2005) and retrospective data sets for 2002 and 2000. You will also find a number of papers on benchmarking governance.
To see the rankings and category scores, click here. To analyse individual country performance, please click here.

Browsers on low-bandwidth connections can access a text only version of the website.

The Ibrahim Index is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and has been developed under the direction of Robert I. Rotberg and Rachel Gisselquist of the Kennedy school of Government at Harvard University.

The Foundation welcomes your feedback on this project, which can be submitted via this website (see Feedback)


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Angola 42
Benin 13
Botswana 3
Burkina Faso 21
Burundi 40
Cameroon 24
Cape Verde 4
Central African Republic 41
Chad 46
Comoros 26
Congo 30
Cote d'Ivoire 36
Democratic Republic of Congo 47
Djibouti 29
Equatorial Guinea 32
Eritrea 38
Ethiopia 27
Gabon 6
Gambia 22
Ghana 8
Guinea 33
Guinea-Bissau 44
Kenya 15
Lesotho 11
Liberia 43
Madagascar 17
Malawi 12
Mali 20
Mauritania 16
Mauritius 1
Mozambique 23
Namibia 7
Niger 28
Nigeria 37
Rwanda 18
Sao Tome and Principe 10
Senegal 9
Seychelles 2
Sierra Leone 39
Somalia 48
South Africa 5
Sudan 45
Swaziland 34
Tanzania 14
Togo 35
Uganda 25
Zambia 19
Zimbabwe 31


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Project Team

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The Index was created and prepared under the auspices of the Kennedy School of Government’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution under the direction of Robert Rotberg.
Director

Robert I. Rotberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict in the Kennedy School, and President of the World Peace Foundation
Research Director

Rachel M. Gisselquist
Researchers

Emmanuel Bagenda, Renata Campante, Sue Drummond Haley, Maya Horii, Zekarias Hussain, Heather Jensen, Michelle Lyden, Stephanie Schwartz, Melesse Tashu, Curtis Valentine, Rebecca Wright, and Adam Ziegfeld
Administrative Team

Vanessa Tucker, Deborah West, Emily Wood

The preparation of the Ibrahim Index has been supported by an Advisory Council.

Please also see our Acknowledgements.

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Ibrahim Index of African Governance