2022 IBRAHIM INDEX OF AFRICAN GOVERNANCE - 2022 IIAG: Key find

The continent’s worsening security situation and democratic backsliding are all the more concerning given the combined impacts of global, non-African born challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis. [...] In 2021, almost 70% of the continent’s population live in a country where the level of Security & Rule of Law is worse than in 2012 • The key driver of this negative trend is the Security & Safety sub-category. [...] • For Security & Rule of Law, the pace of deterioration between 2019 and 2021, since the COVID-19 outbreak, has increased almost four-fold compared to the prior years in the 2022 IIAG time series (2012-2019). [...] While the Sustainable 9 Environment sub-category has even reversed to a decline since COVID-19 started, the pace of improvement in the Education sub- category is almost nine times smaller than in the years leading up to the pandemic (2012-2019). [...] and Human Development have • Decades of governance progress are put at risk by resurgent conflict and democratic backsliding, as the continent struggles to manage the improved, Security combined impacts of COVID-19, the climate crisis, political instability & Rule of Law and and coups, as well as insufficient access to food and energy.