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Control of Corruption (standard error) by country

See definition GV.CONT.CO.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
0.2785 standard error
Comoros
Lowest
0.1456 standard error
South Africa
Median
0.1749 standard error
Years covered
16
1996–2011
Data points
688

What the numbers show

Control of Corruption (standard error) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 0.2785 standard error in Comoros; the lowest is 0.1456 standard error in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1749 standard error, and the mean is 0.1797 standard error.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Control of Corruption: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Comoros 0.2785 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
2 Guinea-Bissau 0.2482 standard error 2011 down 20.7% falling
3 Seychelles 0.2411 standard error 2011 down 25.8% falling
4 Equatorial Guinea 0.2293 standard error 2011 down 7.5% falling
4 Sao Tome and Principe 0.2293 standard error 2011 down 29.5% falling
6 Djibouti 0.2275 standard error 2011 down 30.0% falling
7 Somalia 0.206 standard error 2011 down 39.2% falling
8 Eswatini 0.2056 standard error 2011 down 36.8% falling
9 Eritrea 0.2011 standard error 2011 down 38.2% falling
10 Gambia 0.1951 standard error 2011 down 37.7% falling
11 Gabon 0.1936 standard error 2011 down 20.2% falling
12 Cape Verde 0.1922 standard error 2011 down 51.7% falling
13 Libya 0.1907 standard error 2011 down 35.4% falling
14 Burundi 0.1901 standard error 2011 down 41.5% falling
15 Guinea 0.1901 standard error 2011 down 39.3% falling
16 Central African Republic 0.1888 standard error 2011 down 41.9% falling
17 Rwanda 0.1842 standard error 2011 down 43.3% falling
18 Sierra Leone 0.1824 standard error 2011 down 41.7% falling
19 Congo 0.1785 standard error 2011 down 43.0% falling
20 Chad 0.1776 standard error 2011 down 45.4% falling
20 Mauritius 0.1776 standard error 2011 down 27.5% falling
22 Sudan 0.1776 standard error 2011 down 26.8% falling
22 Niger 0.1776 standard error 2011 down 43.3% falling
22 Togo 0.1776 standard error 2011 down 43.3% falling
25 Lesotho 0.1774 standard error 2011 down 45.4% falling
26 Mauritania 0.1749 standard error 2011 down 46.2% falling
27 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.1749 standard error 2011 down 44.1% falling
28 Morocco 0.1713 standard error 2011 down 29.4% falling
29 Liberia 0.1703 standard error 2011 down 45.6% falling
30 Algeria 0.1683 standard error 2011 down 30.6% falling
31 Benin 0.1664 standard error 2011 down 48.8% falling
32 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1659 standard error 2011 down 31.6% falling
32 Tunisia 0.1659 standard error 2011 down 31.6% falling
34 Cameroon 0.1651 standard error 2011 down 31.9% falling
35 Angola 0.1641 standard error 2011 down 32.3% falling
35 Egypt 0.1641 standard error 2011 down 25.6% falling
35 Ethiopia 0.1641 standard error 2011 down 32.3% falling
38 Malawi 0.1633 standard error 2011 down 32.7% falling
39 Namibia 0.1624 standard error 2011 down 33.1% falling
40 Botswana 0.1586 standard error 2011 down 34.6% falling
41 Mozambique 0.1567 standard error 2011 down 35.4% falling
41 Mali 0.1567 standard error 2011 down 50.0% falling
41 Madagascar 0.1567 standard error 2011 down 50.0% falling
44 Zambia 0.1555 standard error 2011 down 35.9% falling
44 Senegal 0.1555 standard error 2011 down 35.9% falling
46 Burkina Faso 0.1551 standard error 2011 down 50.4% falling
46 Tanzania 0.1551 standard error 2011 down 36.0% falling
46 Zimbabwe 0.1551 standard error 2011 down 29.7% falling
49 Nigeria 0.1541 standard error 2011 down 30.2% falling
49 Ghana 0.1541 standard error 2011 down 36.5% falling
49 Uganda 0.1541 standard error 2011 down 36.5% falling
49 Kenya 0.1541 standard error 2011 down 36.5% falling
53 South Africa 0.1456 standard error 2011 down 27.4% falling

About this data

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

See definition GV.CONT.CO.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which each country appears.