• Mauritius tops Africa in 2025 investment risk-resilience index

• Only three African countries rank in global Top 100

• Index measures geopolitical, economic, and climate risk factors
  

Mauritius, Tanzania, and Botswana are Africa’s safest destinations for investors in 2025, according to a ranking released on Oct. 21, 2025, by UK-based residence and citizenship advisory firm Henley & Partners in partnership with predictive analytics platform AlphaGeo.

Dubbed the Global Investment Risk and Resilience Index (the first index to measure countries’ exposure to geopolitical, economic, and climate risks as well as their ability to adapt and recover), it guides high-net-worth individuals, institutional investors, and corporations on where to allocate capital.

The index rates 226 countries and territories across 13 indicators grouped under two main pillars: Risk and Resilience.

The Risk pillar captures national vulnerabilities that could undermine investment performance. A higher score indicates greater risk. Indicators include inflation, currency volatility, political instability, rule of law, regulatory quality, and physical climate risks.

The Resilience pillar measures a country’s capacity to absorb shocks and adapt to major changes, thereby protecting investments and ensuring long-term stability. Higher scores indicate stronger resilience. Indicators include external accounts, fiscal headroom, economic complexity (the technological sophistication of production and exports), gross fixed capital formation, innovation, governance quality, social progress, and climate change resilience.

Each indicator and pillar is scored on a 0-1 scale, and the overall score is calculated as (total resilience score – total risk score + 1) × 50.  This balances the two pillars and expresses the final result on a 0–100 scale. Countries with the highest overall scores are deemed least risky. The index highlights not only exposure to risk but also cases where strong resilience offsets it.

Mauritius ranked 83rd globally with 62.20 points, leading the continent thanks to low currency volatility, a sound legal and regulatory framework, and controlled inflation.

Tanzania (84th globally) ranked second in Africa, followed by Botswana (86th), Seychelles (109th), Uganda (122nd), Cabo Verde (125th), Namibia (138th), South Africa (145th), and Morocco (148th). Rwanda (151st) rounded out Africa’s Top 10.

Only three African nations made the global Top 100. Most of the continent’s countries placed near the bottom, weighed down by weak performance in political stability, governance, external accounts, and climate resilience.

Globally, Switzerland ranked as the least risky country, followed by Denmark, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Luxembourg, Finland, Greenland, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Walid Kéfi