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Corruption Perceptions Index (score) by country

This information is from the http://www.transparency.org Transparency International web site. More information may be available there. CPI Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts, and ranges between 0 (highly corrupt) and 10 (highly clean). Data...

Countries reporting
52
Highest
65 score
Botswana
Lowest
8 score
Somalia
Median
32.5 score
Years covered
15
1998–2012
Data points
564

What the numbers show

Corruption Perceptions Index (score) is currently reported for 52 countries. The highest value is 65 score in Botswana; the lowest is 8 score in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 32.5 score, and the mean is 33.27 score.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 8.

Corruption Perceptions Index: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Botswana 65 score 2012 up 915.6% volatile
2 Cape Verde 60 score 2012 up 1,124.5% volatile
3 Mauritius 57 score 2012 up 1,166.7% volatile
4 Rwanda 53 score 2012 up 1,609.7% volatile
5 Seychelles 52 score 2012 up 1,081.8% volatile
6 Namibia 48 score 2012 up 742.1% volatile
7 Lesotho 45 score 2012 up 1,223.5% volatile
7 Ghana 45 score 2012 up 1,053.8% volatile
9 South Africa 43 score 2012 up 795.8% volatile
10 Sao Tome and Principe 42 score 2012 up 1,455.6% volatile
11 Liberia 41 score 2012 up 1,763.6% volatile
11 Tunisia 41 score 2012 up 754.2% volatile
13 Burkina Faso 38 score 2012 up 1,166.7% volatile
14 Morocco 37 score 2012 up 900.0% volatile
14 Eswatini 37 score 2012 up 1,270.4% volatile
14 Malawi 37 score 2012 up 1,175.9% volatile
14 Zambia 37 score 2012 up 1,323.1% volatile
18 Benin 36 score 2012 up 1,025.0% volatile
18 Senegal 36 score 2012 up 1,061.3% volatile
20 Tanzania 35 score 2012 up 1,196.3% volatile
20 Gabon 35 score 2012 up 960.6% volatile
22 Algeria 34 score 2012 up 1,207.7% volatile
22 Mali 34 score 2012 up 1,033.3% volatile
22 Gambia 34 score 2012 up 1,260.0% volatile
25 Niger 33 score 2012 up 1,400.0% volatile
25 Ethiopia 33 score 2012 up 842.9% volatile
27 Madagascar 32 score 2012 up 1,782.3% volatile
27 Egypt 32 score 2012 up 841.2% volatile
29 Sierra Leone 31 score 2012 up 1,309.1% volatile
29 Mozambique 31 score 2012 up 1,048.2% volatile
29 Mauritania 31 score 2012 up 900.0% volatile
32 Togo 30 score 2012 up 1,150.0% volatile
33 Cote d'Ivoire 29 score 2012 up 974.1% volatile
33 Uganda 29 score 2012 up 1,281.0% volatile
35 Comoros 28 score 2012 up 976.9% volatile
36 Nigeria 27 score 2012 up 1,587.5% volatile
36 Kenya 27 score 2012 up 1,321.0% volatile
38 Congo 26 score 2012 up 1,081.8% volatile
38 Cameroon 26 score 2012 up 1,081.8% volatile
38 Central African Republic 26 score 2012 up 983.3% volatile
41 Guinea-Bissau 25 score 2012 up 1,036.4% volatile
41 Eritrea 25 score 2012 up 861.5% volatile
43 Guinea 24 score 2012 up 1,163.2% volatile
44 Angola 22 score 2012 up 1,194.1% volatile
45 Democratic Republic of Congo 21 score 2012 up 950.0% volatile
45 Libya 21 score 2012 up 900.0% volatile
47 Zimbabwe 20 score 2012 up 640.7% volatile
47 Equatorial Guinea 20 score 2012 up 952.6% volatile
49 Chad 19 score 2012 up 1,017.6% volatile
49 Burundi 19 score 2012 up 726.1% volatile
51 Sudan 13 score 2012 up 465.2% volatile
52 Somalia 8 score 2012 up 281.0% volatile

About this data

Indicator
Corruption Perceptions Index (score)
Unit
score
Source
Transparency International
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
52 places, 564 data points, 1998–2012
Last refreshed

This information is from the http://www.transparency.org Transparency International web site. More information may be available there. CPI Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts, and ranges between 0 (highly corrupt) and 10 (highly clean). Data for 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index scores countries on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Confidence range provides a range of possible values of the CPI score. This reflects how a country's score may vary, depending on measurement precision. Nominally, with 5 percent probability the score is above this range and with another 5 percent it is below.