Control of Corruption - Governance score (0-100) by country
Control of Corruption (CC) captures perceptions of the extent to which public power is used for private gain, including both petty and grand corruption, as well as capture of the state by elites and private interests. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical...
Countries reporting
208
Highest
93.62 0-100
Denmark
Lowest
5.76 0-100
South Sudan
Median
43.86 0-100
Years covered
30
1996–2025
Data points
5,432
What the numbers show
Control of Corruption - Governance score (0-100) is currently reported for 208 countries. The highest value is 93.62 0-100 in Denmark; the lowest is 5.76 0-100 in South Sudan.
The median across all reporting countries is 43.86 0-100, and the mean is 47.43 0-100.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 16.
Over the past decade 108 countries rose and 98 fell. The largest increase was in Angola (up 89.7%), and the largest decrease in South Sudan (down 53.5%).
Control of Corruption - Governance score (0-100) (Control score 0-100): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark | 93.62 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 2 | Finland | 91.17 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.8% | falling |
| 3 | Switzerland | 88.05 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.2% | flat |
| 4 | Singapore | 87.83 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 5 | Sweden | 87.48 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.0% | falling |
| 6 | Norway | 86.98 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.4% | flat |
| 7 | Luxembourg | 86.88 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.5% | flat |
| 8 | New Zealand | 86.1 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 9 | Netherlands | 85.85 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 10 | Australia | 85.12 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.4% | falling |
| 11 | Iceland | 84.83 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 12 | Liechtenstein | 83.43 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.9% | rising |
| 13 | Germany | 81.85 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 14 | Estonia | 81.06 0-100 | 2025 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 15 | Hong Kong | 81.05 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 16 | Canada | 80.21 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 17 | Uruguay | 79.43 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 18 | United Kingdom | 78.92 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.1% | falling |
| 19 | Ireland | 78.5 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.2% | flat |
| 20 | Greenland | 77.9 0-100 | 2025 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 21 | Bhutan | 77.76 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 22 | Japan | 77.38 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 23 | Belgium | 75.56 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.9% | flat |
| 24 | Austria | 74.3 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 25 | France | 73.09 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 26 | Barbados | 72.8 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 27 | Seychelles | 72.77 0-100 | 2025 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 28 | Andorra | 71.84 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 28 | American Samoa | 71.84 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 28 | Bermuda | 71.84 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 28 | Guam | 71.84 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 28 | Monaco | 71.84 0-100 | 2025 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 28 | San Marino | 71.84 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 34 | United Arab Emirates | 71.29 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 35 | Chile | 70.22 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.3% | falling |
| 36 | Bahamas | 69.11 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.3% | falling |
| 37 | Lithuania | 68.61 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 38 | Brunei | 68.07 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 39 | Israel | 67.35 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.3% | falling |
| 40 | South Korea | 66.68 0-100 | 2025 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 41 | Cape Verde | 66.34 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 42 | Qatar | 65.81 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 43 | Aruba | 65.57 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 44 | United States | 65.5 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.3% | falling |
| 45 | Poland | 65.16 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.2% | rising |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 64.29 0-100 | 2025 | up 42.4% | rising |
| 47 | Czechia | 63.81 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 48 | Portugal | 63.62 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.6% | falling |
| 49 | Latvia | 63.57 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 50 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 62.62 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.5% | falling |
| 51 | Costa Rica | 62.04 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.5% | flat |
| 52 | Micronesia (country) | 61.57 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.7% | rising |
| 53 | Samoa | 61.32 0-100 | 2025 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 54 | Spain | 61.21 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.7% | falling |
| 55 | Rwanda | 60.88 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 56 | Slovenia | 60.69 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.5% | falling |
| 57 | Cayman Islands | 60.24 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 58 | Botswana | 59.94 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.6% | falling |
| 59 | Antigua and Barbuda | 59.9 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 60 | Italy | 59.82 0-100 | 2025 | up 20.5% | falling |
| 61 | Tuvalu | 59.8 0-100 | 2025 | up 26.5% | rising |
| 62 | Macao | 59.62 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 63 | Malaysia | 59.42 0-100 | 2025 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 64 | Puerto Rico | 58.98 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.2% | falling |
| 65 | Dominica | 58.85 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.8% | falling |
| 66 | Cyprus | 58.84 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.8% | falling |
| 67 | Fiji | 58.83 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 68 | Palau | 58.4 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 69 | Grenada | 58.22 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.2% | falling |
| 70 | Oman | 58.19 0-100 | 2025 | up 21.3% | falling |
| 71 | Saint Lucia | 57.85 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.0% | falling |
| 72 | Nauru | 57.25 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 73 | Mauritius | 55.96 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.7% | flat |
| 74 | Marshall Islands | 55.2 0-100 | 2025 | down 14.4% | rising |
| 75 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 54.46 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 76 | Jordan | 54.16 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 77 | Kiribati | 54.03 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 78 | Kuwait | 53.75 0-100 | 2025 | up 24.8% | falling |
| 79 | Bahrain | 53.72 0-100 | 2025 | up 10.2% | flat |
| 80 | Greece | 53.1 0-100 | 2025 | up 9.4% | falling |
| 81 | Malta | 51.62 0-100 | 2025 | down 20.8% | falling |
| 82 | Senegal | 51.07 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 83 | Namibia | 51.03 0-100 | 2025 | down 11.2% | falling |
| 84 | New Caledonia | 50.81 0-100 | 2025 | — | flat |
| 85 | Sao Tome and Principe | 50.63 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.0% | flat |
| 86 | Croatia | 50.63 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 87 | Armenia | 50.31 0-100 | 2025 | up 45.2% | rising |
| 88 | Montenegro | 49.57 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 89 | China | 49.47 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.2% | rising |
| 90 | Slovakia | 49.17 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 91 | Dominican Republic | 48.23 0-100 | 2025 | up 50.3% | rising |
| 92 | Hungary | 48.09 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 93 | Romania | 47.99 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 94 | United States Virgin Islands | 46.65 0-100 | 2025 | down 21.0% | falling |
| 95 | Jamaica | 46.23 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.8% | flat |
| 96 | Vietnam | 45.9 0-100 | 2025 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 97 | Ghana | 45.8 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 98 | South Africa | 45.35 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 99 | Georgia | 45.22 0-100 | 2025 | down 28.5% | rising |
| 100 | Belize | 45.18 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.8% | flat |
| 101 | Solomon Islands | 44.92 0-100 | 2025 | up 12.3% | falling |
| 102 | Vanuatu | 44.38 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 103 | French Polynesia | 44.06 0-100 | 2025 | — | flat |
| 104 | Tunisia | 43.93 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.5% | rising |
| 105 | Benin | 43.78 0-100 | 2025 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 106 | Burkina Faso | 43.51 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.8% | falling |
| 107 | Moldova | 42.92 0-100 | 2025 | up 60.1% | rising |
| 108 | Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) | 42.8 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.1% | falling |
| 109 | Kazakhstan | 42.76 0-100 | 2025 | up 38.9% | rising |
| 110 | Kosovo | 42.7 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.7% | falling |
| 111 | Cote d'Ivoire | 42.52 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 112 | Lesotho | 42.51 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.7% | rising |
| 113 | India | 42.41 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.3% | flat |
| 114 | Sri Lanka | 42.33 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.8% | falling |
| 115 | Bulgaria | 42.22 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.3% | falling |
| 116 | North Macedonia | 42.04 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 117 | Albania | 41.97 0-100 | 2025 | up 17.4% | rising |
| 118 | Colombia | 41.82 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 119 | Maldives | 41.31 0-100 | 2025 | up 14.0% | falling |
| 120 | Tanzania | 41.31 0-100 | 2025 | up 14.0% | rising |
| 121 | Trinidad and Tobago | 41.21 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.4% | falling |
| 122 | Ethiopia | 40.49 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 123 | Guyana | 40.43 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.9% | flat |
| 124 | Brazil | 40.36 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 125 | Suriname | 40.34 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.3% | falling |
| 126 | Argentina | 40.26 0-100 | 2025 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 127 | East Timor | 40.16 0-100 | 2025 | up 14.6% | falling |
| 128 | Tonga | 39.63 0-100 | 2025 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 129 | Mongolia | 38.99 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.4% | falling |
| 130 | Zambia | 38.86 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.1% | rising |
| 131 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 38.35 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 132 | Thailand | 38.05 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.9% | falling |
| 133 | Morocco | 37.9 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 134 | Gambia | 37.74 0-100 | 2025 | up 28.6% | flat |
| 135 | Indonesia | 37.68 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 136 | Turkey | 37.39 0-100 | 2025 | down 17.5% | falling |
| 137 | Algeria | 37.33 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 138 | El Salvador | 37 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 139 | Panama | 36.8 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 140 | Belarus | 36.5 0-100 | 2025 | down 14.5% | flat |
| 141 | Philippines | 36.47 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.9% | flat |
| 142 | Palestine | 36.26 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.6% | falling |
| 143 | Serbia | 35.9 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.4% | rising |
| 144 | Malawi | 34.69 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.1% | flat |
| 145 | Angola | 34.28 0-100 | 2025 | up 89.7% | rising |
| 146 | Ukraine | 34.11 0-100 | 2025 | up 27.0% | rising |
| 147 | Uzbekistan | 34.06 0-100 | 2025 | up 56.5% | rising |
| 148 | Egypt | 33.91 0-100 | 2025 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 149 | Togo | 33.82 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 150 | Cuba | 33.36 0-100 | 2025 | down 38.0% | falling |
| 151 | Ecuador | 33.19 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 152 | Niger | 33.17 0-100 | 2025 | down 15.6% | rising |
| 153 | Peru | 32.81 0-100 | 2025 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 154 | Nepal | 32.45 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.6% | falling |
| 155 | Gabon | 32.4 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 156 | Azerbaijan | 32.35 0-100 | 2025 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 157 | Papua New Guinea | 32.33 0-100 | 2025 | up 13.6% | flat |
| 158 | Sierra Leone | 32.23 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 159 | Eswatini | 31.91 0-100 | 2025 | down 24.4% | falling |
| 160 | Kenya | 30.79 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.6% | rising |
| 161 | Comoros | 30.33 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.0% | falling |
| 162 | Guatemala | 29.41 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.2% | falling |
| 163 | Djibouti | 29.26 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.2% | falling |
| 164 | Mali | 29.1 0-100 | 2025 | down 18.1% | falling |
| 165 | Mexico | 29.03 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 166 | Mauritania | 28.97 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.5% | falling |
| 167 | Liberia | 28.59 0-100 | 2025 | down 14.8% | rising |
| 168 | Russia | 28.21 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 169 | Bangladesh | 28.2 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 170 | Laos | 28.03 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 171 | Paraguay | 27.73 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.9% | rising |
| 172 | Madagascar | 27.1 0-100 | 2025 | down 16.0% | falling |
| 173 | Guinea | 26.56 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.9% | falling |
| 174 | Nigeria | 26.5 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 175 | Pakistan | 26.49 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.3% | flat |
| 176 | Mozambique | 25.95 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.2% | falling |
| 177 | Kyrgyzstan | 25.76 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.3% | falling |
| 178 | Uganda | 25.75 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 179 | Iran | 25.02 0-100 | 2025 | down 23.5% | falling |
| 180 | Bolivia | 24.13 0-100 | 2025 | down 26.5% | falling |
| 181 | Cameroon | 23.75 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.0% | flat |
| 182 | Lebanon | 23.34 0-100 | 2025 | down 16.1% | falling |
| 183 | Honduras | 22.89 0-100 | 2025 | down 27.8% | flat |
| 184 | Iraq | 22.79 0-100 | 2025 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 185 | Tajikistan | 22.75 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 186 | Cambodia | 22.56 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.5% | falling |
| 187 | Zimbabwe | 21.98 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.8% | falling |
| 188 | Myanmar | 21.71 0-100 | 2025 | down 24.7% | rising |
| 189 | Afghanistan | 21.7 0-100 | 2025 | up 24.1% | rising |
| 190 | Turkmenistan | 21.69 0-100 | 2025 | up 17.1% | falling |
| 191 | Central African Republic | 21.32 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 192 | Chad | 20.98 0-100 | 2025 | up 20.4% | falling |
| 193 | Nicaragua | 20.21 0-100 | 2025 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 194 | Guinea-Bissau | 19.81 0-100 | 2025 | up 17.8% | falling |
| 195 | Congo | 19.32 0-100 | 2025 | down 13.1% | falling |
| 196 | Equatorial Guinea | 18.17 0-100 | 2025 | up 13.4% | falling |
| 197 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 17.98 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.0% | rising |
| 198 | Libya | 17.17 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.4% | falling |
| 199 | Burundi | 17 0-100 | 2025 | down 24.2% | falling |
| 200 | Haiti | 16.97 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 201 | Venezuela | 16.87 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.4% | falling |
| 202 | North Korea | 16.73 0-100 | 2025 | down 25.3% | falling |
| 203 | Sudan | 16.35 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 204 | Eritrea | 15.57 0-100 | 2025 | down 25.1% | falling |
| 205 | Syria | 15.41 0-100 | 2025 | down 9.9% | falling |
| 206 | Yemen | 14.17 0-100 | 2025 | down 21.9% | falling |
| 207 | Somalia | 13.92 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.4% | falling |
| 208 | South Sudan | 5.76 0-100 | 2025 | down 53.5% | volatile |
About this data
Control of Corruption (CC) captures perceptions of the extent to which public power is used for private gain, including both petty and grand corruption, as well as capture of the state by elites and private interests. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).