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Control of Corruption (estimate) by country

Control of corruption measures the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as “capture” of the state by elites and private interests. Further documentation and research using the World Governance Indicators (WGI) is available at...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
0.9731
Botswana
Lowest
-1.72
Somalia
Median
-0.6151
Years covered
16
1996–2011
Data points
688

What the numbers show

Control of Corruption (estimate) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 0.9731 in Botswana; the lowest is -1.72 in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is -0.6151, and the mean is -0.5923.

Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 31 fell. The largest increase was in Cape Verde (up 528.9%), and the largest decrease in Morocco (down 828.1%).

Control of Corruption: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Botswana 0.9731 2011 up 46.1% rising
2 Cape Verde 0.8017 2011 up 528.9% volatile
3 Mauritius 0.6185 2011 up 12.6% rising
4 Rwanda 0.4489 2011 up 169.5% volatile
5 Seychelles 0.2581 2011 down 44.4% volatile
6 Lesotho 0.2243 2011 up 281.4% volatile
7 Namibia 0.2225 2011 down 53.0% volatile
8 Ghana 0.134 2011 up 286.5% volatile
9 South Africa 0.034 2011 down 94.4% volatile
10 Tunisia -0.2109 2011 down 651.9% volatile
11 Morocco -0.2602 2011 down 828.1% volatile
12 Eswatini -0.2652 2011 down 4.7% volatile
13 Madagascar -0.2782 2011 down 107.7% volatile
14 Djibouti -0.2981 2011 up 68.6% rising
15 Sao Tome and Principe -0.3687 2011 down 359.5% falling
16 Burkina Faso -0.3803 2011 down 170.4% volatile
17 Malawi -0.3883 2011 down 85.5% falling
18 Mozambique -0.4071 2011 down 2.0% falling
19 Liberia -0.4428 2011 up 67.7% rising
20 Gambia -0.4986 2011 down 21.6% falling
21 Zambia -0.5149 2011 up 39.6% rising
22 Tanzania -0.5236 2011 up 44.8% rising
23 Eritrea -0.5528 2011 down 189.9% volatile
24 Algeria -0.5613 2011 up 40.8% rising
25 Mauritania -0.5694 2011 down 124.7% volatile
26 Mali -0.6133 2011 up 7.7% falling
27 Senegal -0.6151 2011 down 444.4% volatile
28 Niger -0.6459 2011 up 31.3% rising
29 Benin -0.6688 2011 down 35.7% rising
30 Egypt -0.6763 2011 down 72.9% falling
31 Ethiopia -0.6945 2011 down 41.8% rising
32 Comoros -0.7017 2011 up 37.6% rising
33 Gabon -0.7678 2011 down 52.4% falling
34 Sierra Leone -0.7744 2011 up 15.2% flat
35 Central African Republic -0.8465 2011 up 28.7% rising
36 Uganda -0.8992 2011 down 5.5% falling
37 Kenya -0.9154 2011 up 3.5% flat
38 Cameroon -0.9656 2011 up 8.7% rising
39 Togo -0.9924 2011 down 49.3% falling
40 Guinea-Bissau -1.06 2011 down 9.5% flat
41 Cote d'Ivoire -1.1 2011 down 60.9% falling
42 Congo -1.11 2011 down 15.5% falling
43 Burundi -1.12 2011 down 10.7% rising
44 Nigeria -1.14 2011 down 1.0% rising
45 Guinea -1.17 2011 down 55.3% falling
46 Chad -1.25 2011 down 53.0% falling
47 Sudan -1.3 2011 down 62.7% falling
48 Zimbabwe -1.3 2011 down 37.9% falling
49 Libya -1.31 2011 down 78.1% falling
50 Angola -1.36 2011 up 10.0% falling
51 Democratic Republic of Congo -1.37 2011 up 12.4% rising
52 Equatorial Guinea -1.49 2011 up 2.9% falling
53 Somalia -1.72 2011 up 3.5% falling

About this data

Indicator
Control of Corruption (estimate)
Source
"World Bank Institute. "
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
53 places, 688 data points, 1996–2011
Last refreshed

Control of corruption measures the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as “capture” of the state by elites and private interests. Further documentation and research using the World Governance Indicators (WGI) is available at www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance.