A Comprehensive Ranking of African Countries According to Governance Quality

COUNTRY		RANK /100	6 YEAR CHANGE
1	Mauritius	82.8	4.5△
2	Cape Verde	78.4	4.1△
3	Botswana	77.2	0.9△
4	Seychelles	73.4	-0.5▽
5	South Africa	70.7	-1.1▽
6	Namibia	69.8	0.2△
7	Ghana	66.3	2.0△
8	Tunisia	62.7	-2.0▽
9	Lesotho	61.0	-0.2▽
10	Tanzania	58.8	0.4△
11	São Tomé and Príncipe	58.5	1.9△
12	Zambia	58.5	2.1△
13	Benin	57.8	-1.1▽
14	Egypt	57.7	0.2△
15	Morocco	57.0	-0.4▽
16	Senegal	56.2	-3.0▽
17	Malawi	56.0	3.3△
18	Burkina Faso	55.1	2.0△
19	Uganda	55.1	1.3△
20	Mali	55.0	1.9△
21	Mozambique	54.9	0.2△
22	Gabon	53.6	5.3△
23	Rwanda	53.5	2.0△
24	Algeria	52.9	-1.6▽
25	Kenya	52.7	-1.2▽
26	Swaziland	52.0	1.8△
27	Gambia	51.6	-1.5▽
28	Niger	49.5	6.7△
29	Djibouti	49.0	0.1△
30	Sierra Leone	48.1	8.9△
31	Comoros	47.9	0.0
32	Mauritania	47.5	-2.2▽
33	Ethiopia	46.7	0.7△
34	Liberia	46.6	12.0△
35	Madagascar	46.1	-12.8▽
36	Burundi	44.9	1.1△
37	Cameroon	44.9	0.8△
38	Libya	44.5	-8.0▽
39	Togo	44.4	6.4△
40	Angola	44.1	9.3△
41	Congo	43.5	3.8△
42	Guinea	42.5	3.6△
43	Nigeria	42.0	0.2△
44	Equatorial Guinea	40.5	3.4△
45	Guinea-Bissau	39.8	-1.2▽
46	Côte d’Ivoire	38.8	3.4△
47	Zimbabwe	34.4	1.3△
48	Central African Rep.	33.7	5.2△
49	Eritrea	33.0	-5.8▽
50	Chad	32.8	1.8△
51	Congo, Democratic Rep.	32.8	2.2△
52	Somalia	7.2	-1.6▽

Key findings:

• Nigeria, West Africa’s powerhouse, has for the first time this year fallen into the bottom ten governance performers on the continent.
• While West, Central and Southern Africa are slowly improving their overall governance scores, both North Africa and East Africa have registered declines.
• Five of the six most imbalanced countries belong to North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
• Angola, Liberia and Togo have left the IIAG’s group of the ten worst performers. They have been replaced by Eritrea, Guinea Bissau and Nigeria.
• Since 2000, at the continental level, there have been improvements in 11 out the 14 sub-categories of the IIAG.
• While West, Central and Southern Africa are slowly improving their overall governance scores, both North Africa and East Africa have registered declines.
• Over the last six years, almost half (21) of the 52 African countries register increased imbalance between the four categories.
• Between 2000 and 2011, overall continental governance improved in Africa.
• Over the last six years, Tanzania has climbed up the IIAG’s rankings, making it into the top ten for the first time.

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