The Mo Ibrahim 2010 Index of African Governance has ranked Mauritius first out of the 53 African countries with a total score of 82 points. Four other countries of Southern Africa are among the top ten performers, namely, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho.
Mauritius has topped the list of Africa's best-governed nations and has been ranked first in five of the Mo Ibrahim Index's 13 sub-categories. Mauritius scored higher than the regional average for Southern Africa which was 57 and higher than the continental average of 49. However, the country was ranked lowest in Gender, which is the only sub-category in which Mauritius was not in the top ten.
The Ibrahim Index measures the delivery of public goods and services to citizens by government and non-state actors across 88 indicators of governance. Those governance indicators are grouped in four overall categories: Safety and Security, Participation and Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development.
The Ibrahim Index of African Governance was created in recognition of the need for a robust, comprehensive and quantifiable tool for civil society to track government performance in Africa. The Ibrahim Index is Africa's leading assessment of governance, established to inform and empower the continent's citizens and to support governments, parliaments and civil society to assess progress.
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