The 2019 Africa Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index ranks 52 African countries based on 97 indicators across all 17 goals. The SDGs Index score signifies a country’s position between the worst (0) and best (100) outcomes. Tunisia tops this year’s ranking with a score of 66.01 which implies that the country is 66% of the way towards achieving the SDGs, according to SDG Centre for Africa and Sustainable Development Solutions Networks
(SDSN) 2019. The top 5 ranked countries are North African countries, with Tunisia in first position followed by Mauritius, Algeria, Morocco, Cape Verde in second, third, fourth a n d f i f t h p o s i t i o n r e s p e c t i v e l y .
Notwithstanding, these top performers are still more than 30% of the way from achieving the SDGs by 2030. Low performers are mainly composed of fragile states, with high levels of poverty and conflict in their territories. These
include South Sudan, Central African Republic and Chad with score of 29.2, 36.7 and 38.7 respectively. Seychelles and Libya are excluded due to insufficient data availability. Overall, the average score across all countries is just 52.3
(52.7 after weighting by population), implying that Africa is barely halfway to achieving the SDGs, and the situation holds little promise to achieving SDGs in the continent except bold reforms are implemented.