The Mo Ibrahim Foundation
2007 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Scores and rankings
The Ibrahim Index measures the degree to which essential political goods are provided within the forty-eight African countries south of the Sahara. The 2007 Ibrahim Index uses data from 2005, the last year with reasonably complete available data for nearly all sub-Saharan African nation-states.
For a summary of the rankings click here. For a detailed note on the calculation of scores in the Ibrahim Index, please see Special Paper 2 in Explanation and Papers.
To download a table showing the rankings and scores for the Ibrahim Index and retrospective datasets, click here.
| Country | Ranking | Overall Score | Safety and Security | Rule of Law, Transparency and Corruption | Participation and Human rights | Sustainable economic opportunity | Human Development |
| Angola | 42 | 44.3 | 67.8 | 38.1 | 36.8 | 40.7 | 38.3 |
| Benin | 13 | 61.2 | 78.4 | 52.8 | 69.6 | 46.9 | 58.4 |
| Botswana | 3 | 73.0 | 75.0 | 88.3 | 75.5 | 58.1 | 67.9 |
| Burkina Faso | 21 | 56.7 | 78.4 | 58.5 | 58.0 | 39.1 | 49.2 |
| Burundi | 40 | 46.8 | 60.4 | 48.8 | 41.9 | 40.3 | 42.2 |
| Cameroon | 24 | 55.6 | 77.7 | 42.5 | 50.4 | 48.1 | 59.2 |
| Cape Verde | 4 | 72.9 | 84.0 | 80.4 | 74.6 | 52.8 | 72.8 |
| Central African Republic | 41 | 46.7 | 68.8 | 45.0 | 54.5 | 38.7 | 26.6 |
| Chad | 46 | 38.8 | 68.3 | 42.1 | 43.3 | 24.2 | 15.9 |
| Comoros | 26 | 53.8 | 78.3 | 48.9 | 55.9 | 38.1 | 47.5 |
| Congo | 30 | 52.1 | 71.3 | 47.8 | 47.6 | 40.4 | 53.2 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 36 | 48.8 | 77.1 | 37.8 | 32.8 | 44.1 | 52.2 |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | 47 | 38.6 | 69.4 | 25.4 | 24.3 | 31.6 | 42.3 |
| Djibouti | 29 | 52.5 | 78.3 | 39.8 | 52.2 | 39.1 | 52.9 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 32 | 51.6 | 85.4 | 44.3 | 38.5 | 47.3 | 42.3 |
| Eritrea | 38 | 48.3 | 74.8 | 60.1 | 25.2 | 33.1 | 48.2 |
| Ethiopia | 27 | 53.2 | 75.4 | 48.7 | 57.4 | 33.0 | 51.6 |
| Gabon | 6 | 67.4 | 94.4 | 57.1 | 59.9 | 62.4 | 63.0 |
| Gambia | 22 | 55.8 | 78.3 | 53.4 | 52.1 | 44.4 | 51.0 |
| Ghana | 8 | 66.8 | 85.9 | 70.1 | 67.7 | 46.5 | 63.8 |
| Guinea | 33 | 51.5 | 72.8 | 51.1 | 44.9 | 37.3 | 51.5 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 44 | 42.7 | 71.2 | 33.8 | 38.7 | 28.2 | 41.5 |
| Kenya | 15 | 59.3 | 62.9 | 57.9 | 64.1 | 47.9 | 63.8 |
| Lesotho | 11 | 64.1 | 91.7 | 66.7 | 63.4 | 43.4 | 55.5 |
| Liberia | 43 | 42.7 | 65.1 | 32.2 | 40.4 | 41.4 | 34.4 |
| Madagascar | 17 | 57.7 | 86.1 | 57.8 | 58.1 | 40.1 | 46.4 |
| Malawi | 12 | 63.7 | 86.1 | 65.0 | 66.0 | 45.0 | 56.3 |
| Mali | 20 | 56.9 | 84.0 | 52.7 | 71.1 | 33.8 | 43.1 |
| Mauritania | 16 | 58.8 | 77.3 | 62.3 | 63.8 | 34.5 | 55.9 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 86.2 | 91.7 | 85.2 | 88.7 | 75.5 | 90.0 |
| Mozambique | 23 | 55.8 | 86.1 | 43.8 | 71.0 | 35.8 | 42.4 |
| Namibia | 7 | 67.0 | 77.7 | 74.5 | 69.4 | 55.0 | 58.3 |
| Niger | 28 | 53.1 | 78.4 | 52.6 | 70.7 | 28.3 | 35.6 |
| Nigeria | 37 | 48.3 | 62.8 | 44.3 | 44.2 | 40.7 | 49.5 |
| Rwanda | 18 | 57.5 | 76.2 | 47.6 | 69.7 | 47.3 | 46.9 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 10 | 65.3 | 84.0 | 55.6 | 80.4 | 44.6 | 61.8 |
| Senegal | 9 | 66.0 | 85.9 | 64.8 | 75.5 | 46.2 | 57.5 |
| Seychelles | 2 | 83.1 | 83.3 | 74.2 | 79.3 | 80.5 | 98.3 |
| Sierra Leone | 39 | 48.3 | 72.0 | 35.1 | 68.4 | 39.4 | 26.4 |
| Somalia | 48 | 28.1 | 63.5 | 19.4 | 23.5 | 5.1 | 28.9 |
| South Africa | 5 | 71.1 | 61.1 | 75.2 | 81.1 | 67.4 | 70.5 |
| Sudan | 45 | 40.0 | 31.1 | 31.4 | 38.3 | 41.3 | 57.8 |
| Swaziland | 34 | 50.9 | 63.9 | 51.3 | 31.2 | 50.4 | 57.5 |
| Tanzania | 14 | 60.7 | 83.3 | 58.4 | 61.0 | 48.6 | 52.1 |
| Togo | 35 | 49.8 | 77.4 | 46.7 | 41.4 | 42.7 | 40.5 |
| Uganda | 25 | 55.4 | 70.5 | 55.7 | 50.7 | 50.0 | 50.3 |
| Zambia | 19 | 57.5 | 77.8 | 61.3 | 54.9 | 47.8 | 45.8 |
| Zimbabwe | 31 | 52.0 | 75.0 | 45.8 | 45.0 | 44.4 | 49.7 |