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Introduction to the IIAG
The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), published every two years, is the most comprehensive dataset measuring African governance performance. It constitutes a framework for citizens, governments, institutions, academics and business to assess the delivery of public goods and services, and policy outcomes, across Africa.
The 2022 IIAG -in its 14th iteration- contains:
• The latest available decade of data: 2012-2021
• 54 countries • A collection of 265 variables from 47 sources
• 81 indicators, 95% of which are clustered to provide a governance assessment supported by multiple proxy measurements
• 223,020 data points
The full 2022 IIAG dataset can be downloa ded from the IIAG – downloads page on our website, or can be accessed online via the interactive IIAG data portal. Indicator scores, ranks and trends are made available for users to explore, measuring how African countries perform on a whole spectrum of thematic governance dimensions, from security to justice to rights and economic opportunity to health.
Measuring governance
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) defines governance as the provision of the political, social, economic and environmental goods and services that every citizen has the right to expect from their state, and that a state has the responsibility to deliver to its citizens. The IIAG is concerned with operationalising these public goods mostly through outputs and outcomes of policy, as opposed to inputs or de jure indicators. Although the latter are selected in occasions when suitable output or outcome variables are not available. The framework of the IIAG has been constructed to reflect this definition and consists of four main categories or pillars of governance that make up the Overall Governance score: Security & Rule of Law, Participation,
Rights & Inclusion, Foundations for Economic Opportunity and Human Development. These categories are comprised of 16 sub-categories.
Citizens’ Voices
The IIAG is accompanied by a complementary Citizens’ Voices dataset. This puts together 36 public perception variables sourced from Afrobarometer and serves to complement the IIAG results with citizens’ perceptions and satisfaction with public services. As an external section meant to accompany the IIAG assessment, Citizens’ Voices is calculated as a separate index with the same methodology as the IIAG, and its scores are not counted in the calculation of the IIAG scores.