Control of corruption

How far public office is kept from being used for private gain.

measured by: World Bank
years covered: 1996–2024
subject: Government

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Perceptions of how far public power is exercised for private gain, from petty bribery to state capture by elites, rescaled to 0–100. Perception is the operative word: it aggregates what surveyed businesspeople, experts and households believe, which moves with news coverage as well as with conduct.

Ranked for 2024

170 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1996.

#	Country	Region	Anti-corruption
1	Denmark	Europe	94.2
2	Finland	Europe	92.2
3	Luxembourg	Europe	88.7
4	Switzerland	Europe	88.5
5	Sweden	Europe	87.7
6	Norway	Europe	87.5
7	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	86.9
8	Netherlands	Europe	86.5
9	Australia	Asia-Pacific	85.3
10	Iceland	Europe	84.9
11	Germany	Europe	83.8
12	Estonia	Europe	81.6
13	Canada	Americas	80.9
14	Ireland	Europe	79.7
15	Uruguay	Americas	78.8
16	United Kingdom	Europe	78.4
17	Greenland	Americas	77.9
18	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	77.7
19	Belgium	Europe	77.6
20	Japan	Asia-Pacific	75.3
21	Austria	Europe	74.1
22	Bahamas	Americas	72.8
23	France	Europe	72.5
24	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	71.9
25	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	71.5
26	Chile	Americas	70.2
27	United States	Americas	69.9
28	Lithuania	Europe	68.0
29	Czechia	Europe	66.7
30	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	65.1
31	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	65.1
32	Latvia	Europe	64.6
33	Portugal	Europe	64.5
34	Poland	Europe	63.9
35	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	63.1
36	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	63.1
37	Spain	Europe	62.3
38	Costa Rica	Americas	61.6
39	Slovenia	Europe	61.5
40	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	60.6
41	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	60.5
42	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	59.2
43	Italy	Europe	59.1
44	Cyprus	Europe	58.6
45	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	58.1
46	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	57.9
47	Puerto Rico	Americas	55.9
48	Georgia	Eurasia	55.6
49	Greece	Europe	53.9
50	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	53.4
51	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	52.3
52	Croatia	Europe	50.9
53	Armenia	Eurasia	50.8
54	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	50.4
55	New Caledonia	Asia-Pacific	50.4
56	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	50.1
57	Slovakia	Europe	50.1
58	China	Asia-Pacific	49.7
59	Hungary	Europe	48.7
60	Romania	Europe	48.4
61	Montenegro	Europe	46.7
62	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	46.5
63	Jamaica	Americas	45.9
64	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	45.0
65	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	44.8
66	Belize	Americas	44.6
67	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	44.0
68	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	43.9
69	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	43.4
70	Cuba	Americas	43.3
71	Bulgaria	Europe	43.0
72	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	43.0
73	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	42.8
74	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	42.7
75	Kosovo	Europe	42.7
76	Dominican Republic	Americas	42.5
77	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	42.1
78	Moldova	Eurasia	42.0
79	Colombia	Americas	41.9
80	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.9
81	India	Asia-Pacific	41.9
82	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.7
83	Argentina	Americas	41.3
84	North Macedonia	Europe	41.2
85	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.1
86	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	41.0
87	Guyana	Americas	40.8
88	Suriname	Americas	40.2
89	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	40.2
90	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	40.1
91	Brazil	Americas	39.6
92	Albania	Europe	39.3
93	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	39.0
94	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	38.6
95	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	38.0
96	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	37.5
97	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	37.4
98	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	37.2
99	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	36.8
100	Panama	Americas	36.6
101	Serbia	Europe	36.5
102	Turkey	Eurasia	36.5
103	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	36.3
104	El Salvador	Americas	36.2
105	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	36.2
106	Belarus	Eurasia	36.2
107	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	35.8
108	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.4
109	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.3
110	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	35.1
111	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.7
112	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.4
113	Ukraine	Eurasia	34.2
114	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.6
115	Peru	Americas	33.3
116	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	32.6
117	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	32.2
118	Ecuador	Americas	32.2
119	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.0
120	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	31.7
121	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.6
122	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	31.1
123	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.8
124	Russia	Eurasia	29.8
125	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.0
126	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	28.9
127	Mexico	Americas	28.8
128	Guatemala	Americas	28.7
129	Laos	Asia-Pacific	28.0
130	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	28.0
131	Bolivia	Americas	27.7
132	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	27.4
133	Paraguay	Americas	27.1
134	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.7
135	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.4
136	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	26.3
137	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	25.5
138	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	25.3
139	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	25.3
140	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	24.9
141	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	24.6
142	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	24.1
143	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	23.5
144	Tajikistan	Eurasia	23.2
145	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.1
146	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	22.9
147	Honduras	Americas	22.7
148	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	22.5
149	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	22.5
150	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	21.6
151	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	21.5
152	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	21.4
153	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.3
154	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	20.6
155	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.7
156	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.0
157	Nicaragua	Americas	18.9
158	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.3
159	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.0
160	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	17.2
161	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	16.9
162	Haiti	Americas	16.7
163	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	16.3
164	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	16.3
165	Venezuela	Americas	15.7
166	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.8
167	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	14.7
168	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	13.4
169	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	11.7
170	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.1

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — Worldwide Governance Indicators

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