Cape Verde, despite occupying 3rd place in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) in 2023, maintains warning signs regarding the general deterioration in the last five years. The country stands out for investing more than 10% of its GDP in health and education, areas that have seen notable improvements, according to the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) 2024 published today.
According to the document, which analyzes the governance of African countries during the decade 2014-2023, Cape Verde (3rd place in 2023, even in 2014), São Tomé and PrÃncipe (12th in 2023, 10th in 2014 ) and Guinea-Bissau (44th in 2023, 41st in 2014) are marked as registering warning signs.
These countries are among the 11 countries (Algeria, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda, São Tomé and PrÃncipe, Zimbabwe) that had a better score in 2023 than in 2014 , but whose overall rating has deteriorated over the past five years.
As positive points, Cape Verde stands out, alongside Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho, for dedicating more than 10% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to health and education, sectors where improvements have been notable. .
Angola was one of the African countries that made the greatest progress in terms of governance during the 2014-2023 decade. Despite the slowdown in progress from 2019 onwards, Angola was the fifth country that improved most over the decade, behind only Seychelles (1st place), Gambia (20th), Somalia (53rd) and Sierra Leone (23rd).
Angola rose nine positions on the continental scale of General Governance, from 45th to 36th place, thanks to improvements in 15 of the 16 subcategories between 2014 and 2023. In the Anti-Corruption subcategory, the country improved in five of the six underlying indicators, some of which which sharply, while other countries with higher scores recorded large declines, such as Botswana, South Africa and Mauritius. The only decline was recorded in the Safety and Security subcategory.
Equatorial Guinea was another member country of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) that made significant progress in terms of general governance at IIAG 2024.
The country is part of a group of 13 (Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Somalia, Togo and Zambia), representing 20.5% of the population of the continent, where progress was faster in the second half of the decade under review.
Even so, since 2014, Equatorial Guinea has risen only one position, standing out among five nations with the worst classifications but increasing improvement trajectories: Republic of Congo (45th place), Libya (46th), Equatorial Guinea (50th .º), Eritrea (52nd) and Somalia (53rd).
On the contrary, Mozambique stands out in the IIAG 2024 in the negative, having dropped from 24th position in the IIAG in 2014 to 28th in 2023.
The country is part of a group of 11 countries (Botswana, Burkina Faso, Eswatini, Guinea, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda), corresponding to 29.3% of the African population, where the deterioration worsened between 2019 and 2023.
Published biennially since 2007, the IIAG assesses the public governance performance of 54 African countries over 10-year periods.
The data comes from 49 independent sources and is based on 322 variables, grouped into 96 governance indicators, which are organized into 16 subcategories and four main categories: Security and Rule of Law; Participation, Rights and Inclusion; Economic Opportunity Foundation; Human Development.
This study makes it possible to assign scores and identify specific trends at the African continental, regional and national level in areas such as security, justice, civil rights, economic environment and health.
