40 = highest degree of political rights
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritius | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 36 | 35 | 35 |
| Seychelles | 25 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 |
| Malawi | 26 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 |
| Madagascar | 7 | 15 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 24 |
| Zambia | 28 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 21 | 23 | 23 |
| Kenya | 21 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 22 | 22 |
| Tunisia | 26 | 27 | 36 | 37 | 36 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 26 | 20 | 16 |
| Comoros | 25 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Ethiopia | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 10 |
| Uganda | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 |
| Zimbabwe | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 |
| Rwanda | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Egypt | 16 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Djibouti | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Burundi | 12 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Somalia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Libya | 22 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Eritrea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| इस्वातिनी | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sudan | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -3 |