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 markedly, 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 saw 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 percent 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 rankings but growing improvement trajectories: Republic of Congo (45th place), Libya (46th), Equatorial Guinea (50th), Eritrea (52nd) and Somalia (53rd).
On the contrary, Mozambique stands out in the IIAG 2024 in a negative way, having fallen 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 percent of the African population, where the deterioration worsened between 2019 and 2023.
Cape Verde (3rd in 2023, even in 2024), São Tomé and Príncipe (12th in 2023, 10th in 2014) and Guinea-Bissau (44th in 2023, 41st in 2014) are also marked as registering warning signs.
These countries are among 11 countries (Algeria, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Zimbabwe) that scored better 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 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to health and education, sectors where improvements were noticeable.
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.
