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2017 IIAG key findings
The 2017 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), released on 20 November in its 11th iteration, is the most comprehensive Index ever produced by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.The 2017 IIAG contains 100 indicators sourced from 36 independent African and international institutions. These are organised into 14 sub-categories, that form the four… Read more
Constructing the IIAG
The IIAG is the most accurate picture of what is going on in Africa, based on data, not personal views or political bias. -Mo Ibrahim How the Ibrahim Index of African Governance is built The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) measures the quality of governance in every African country on an annual basis. It does this by compiling data… Read more
Spotlight - Towards gender equality in Africa: data, challenges, and opportunities
The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) monitors gender equality in Africa through one of its 16 sub-categories, evaluating women's political power and representation, equal rights and civil liberties, socioeconomic opportunities, equal access to public services, and laws on violence against women. Women’s Equality: substantial… Read more, Africa: Women's Equality indicator trends (2012-2021) , 42 African countries have higher levels of equality for women than in 2012 Despite better legal protection for women, violence persists Improvements in gender equality in Africa, in line with the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Maputo Protocol, have been achieved through… Read more, The high prevalence of child marriage is a barrier to girls’ education and socioeconomic prospects Child marriage is another form of gender-based violence prevalent on the continent. Poverty is recognised as the main cause of child marriage, as it is often seen as the only way for girls to gain financial security and ease the burden of expenses… Read more, Poverty ‘still has a woman’s face’, and current crises risk worsening the situation As UN Secretary-General António Guterres pointed out in 2020 at the High-Level Meeting on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in Africa in Addis Ababa, poverty in the world ‘‘still has a woman's face’’. The situation was aggravated by the COVID-19… Read more
African governance progress is lagging behind demographic growth and expectations of youth population
At the beginning of November, I spoke at the launch of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), co-hosted by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). This event provided an opportunity for a reflection on governance in our continent. The IIAG shows that the African average Overall Governance score in… Read more
The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance: reading the results
The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), the 12th iteration of this Index, measures the performance of 54 African countries in the four categories, 14 sub-categories and 102 indicators that make up the Overall Governance score over a ten-year period (2008-2017). This blog post aims to provide some useful guidance regarding how to read… Read more
Infrastructure in Africa: Unpacking the digital divide
Our Index Insight about Infrastructure in Africa unpacks data from the 2024 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). The Insight shows that 52 out of 54 countries have reported improvements in Infrastructure, making it the most improved sub-category across the ten-year period of 2014-2023.Unpacking the digital divideInfrastructure improvement… Read more, For digitalisation and connectivity, improvements are gathering pace but they are slow and from a low baseThe good:The 2024 IIAG contains 11 sub-indicators that speak directly to the digital divide, defined here as the gap between citizens who have access to the internet and mobile communications and those who do not.All of these 11 sub-indicators… Read more, In 2014, the sub-category of Infrastructure reported a score range of 74.7 between the highest-scoring country of Mauritius (78.3) and the lowest-scoring country of South Sudan (3.6). This increased to a range of 79.5 between the top-scoring country of Morocco (85.8) and the lowest-scoring country of South Sudan (6.3) in 2023.This suggests that… Read more
Security & Safety in Africa: 2024 IIAG overview
Security & Safety is the most declined of all IIAG sub-categoriesDropping from an African average of 74.7 in 2014 to 69.7 in 2023, Security & Safety has deteriorated the most out of all 16 IIAG sub-categories (-5.0). All six underlying indicators register a decline over the past decade, led by Public Perception of Security & Safety and… Read more, Almost 80% of Africans live in a country where Security & Safety deteriorated since 2014Over the last decade, the Security & Safety sub-category has consistently declined in 43 of 54 African countries, negatively affecting 77.9% of the continent’s total population. The most declined country is Burkina Faso (-37.6) while the most improved… Read more, Change is driven by public perception and violence against civiliansDeterioration is largely driven by changes in Public Perception of Security & Safety and Absence of Violence against Civilians. Ten countries register ten-year changes of over -20.0 in public perception, led by Eswatini (-52.2).Nine countries register a drop of at least -20.0… Read more, Northern Africa is the only region seeing improvements in Security & SafetyAveraged across their member states, all AU regions except Northern Africa are showing signs of deterioration, albeit with great variability in trends at country level. Northern Africa’s (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia) positive change of +6.2… Read more, Regional (Western African) security zones are deteriorating at a faster rateSecurity & Safety in the four recently withdrawn or suspended ex-ECOWAS members (Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger) has deteriorated by -19.1 since 2014, five times more than in current ECOWAS members (-3.6). Similar observations can be made for other regional… Read more
African governments have failed to translate economic growth into improved sustainable economic opportunity for their citizens
The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) Report explores, amongst others, the relationship between the performance of African countries in the Sustainable Economic Opportunity category in the IIAG and economic growth as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sustainable Economic Opportunity measures the extent to which governments… Read more
26th African Union Summit focuses on Human Rights
This week sees the 26th African Union Summit taking place in Addis Ababa. The topic this year is the African Year of Human Rights, with a particular focus on the rights of women. As delegates gather in Ethiopia, we take a look at what the Ibrahim Index of African Governance tells us about human rights and gender in African governance today: The… Read more
Constructing the 2017 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
The 2017 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) is the 11th iteration of this Index. The IIAG is an annual statistical assessment of the quality of governance in every one of the 54 African countries, covering a 17-year time series from 2000-2016 inclusive. As the Founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF), Dr Mo Ibrahim says: The Index… Read more
