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
203
Highest
94.16 0-100
Denmark
Lowest
6.06 0-100
South Sudan
Median
43 0-100
Years covered
29
1996–2024
Data points
5,167
What the numbers show
Control of Corruption - Governance score (0-100) is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 94.16 0-100 in Denmark; the lowest is 6.06 0-100 in South Sudan.
The median across all reporting countries is 43 0-100, and the mean is 47.31 0-100.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 16.
Over the past decade 106 countries rose and 97 fell. The largest increase was in Angola (up 98.4%), and the largest decrease in South Sudan (down 53.6%).
Control of Corruption - Governance score: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark | 94.16 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.0% | flat |
| 2 | Finland | 92.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.3% | falling |
| 3 | Luxembourg | 88.66 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.4% | flat |
| 4 | Switzerland | 88.48 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.5% | flat |
| 5 | Singapore | 87.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 6 | Sweden | 87.68 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 7 | Norway | 87.55 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 8 | New Zealand | 86.89 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 9 | Netherlands | 86.52 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 10 | Australia | 85.34 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 11 | Iceland | 84.87 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 12 | Monaco | 84.3 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 13 | Germany | 83.75 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 14 | Liechtenstein | 83.38 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.9% | rising |
| 15 | Estonia | 81.64 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 16 | Canada | 80.89 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.4% | falling |
| 17 | Ireland | 79.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 18 | Hong Kong | 79.68 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 19 | Uruguay | 78.78 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 20 | United Kingdom | 78.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 21 | Greenland | 77.87 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 22 | Bhutan | 77.66 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 23 | Belgium | 77.59 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 24 | Japan | 75.32 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.7% | rising |
| 25 | Austria | 74.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.3% | falling |
| 26 | Bahamas | 72.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.1% | falling |
| 27 | Seychelles | 72.77 0-100 | 2024 | up 26.8% | rising |
| 28 | Barbados | 72.67 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.6% | falling |
| 29 | France | 72.51 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.5% | flat |
| 30 | Brunei | 71.86 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 31 | American Samoa | 71.66 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 31 | Bermuda | 71.66 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 31 | Guam | 71.66 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 31 | San Marino | 71.66 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 71.54 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.5% | rising |
| 36 | Chile | 70.24 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 37 | United States | 69.86 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.2% | falling |
| 38 | Lithuania | 67.95 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 39 | Cape Verde | 66.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 40 | Czechia | 66.7 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 41 | Aruba | 65.44 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.8% | falling |
| 42 | Israel | 65.13 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.4% | falling |
| 43 | South Korea | 65.05 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 44 | Latvia | 64.56 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 45 | Portugal | 64.54 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.6% | falling |
| 46 | Poland | 63.93 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 47 | Qatar | 63.13 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 48 | Saudi Arabia | 63.09 0-100 | 2024 | up 47.5% | rising |
| 49 | Spain | 62.32 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 50 | Micronesia (country) | 62.19 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 51 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 62.13 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.4% | falling |
| 52 | Samoa | 61.78 0-100 | 2024 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 53 | Costa Rica | 61.6 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.2% | flat |
| 54 | Slovenia | 61.5 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.4% | falling |
| 55 | Botswana | 60.63 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 56 | Rwanda | 60.52 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 57 | Cayman Islands | 60.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 58 | Tuvalu | 59.57 0-100 | 2024 | up 26.9% | rising |
| 59 | Macao | 59.46 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 60 | Fiji | 59.24 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 61 | Italy | 59.05 0-100 | 2024 | up 22.7% | falling |
| 62 | Dominica | 58.64 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.4% | falling |
| 63 | Cyprus | 58.63 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 64 | Oman | 58.12 0-100 | 2024 | up 20.9% | falling |
| 65 | Nauru | 58.08 0-100 | 2024 | up 35.2% | rising |
| 65 | Palau | 58.08 0-100 | 2024 | up 35.2% | rising |
| 67 | Malaysia | 57.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 68 | Grenada | 57.55 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.1% | falling |
| 69 | Saint Lucia | 56.95 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.7% | falling |
| 70 | Puerto Rico | 55.9 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.7% | falling |
| 71 | Marshall Islands | 55.76 0-100 | 2024 | up 22.4% | rising |
| 72 | Georgia | 55.57 0-100 | 2024 | down 13.5% | rising |
| 73 | Kiribati | 55.44 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | flat |
| 74 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 54.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.9% | falling |
| 75 | Mauritius | 54.75 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.1% | flat |
| 76 | Greece | 53.92 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.6% | falling |
| 77 | Antigua and Barbuda | 53.61 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 78 | Jordan | 53.36 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.2% | flat |
| 79 | Malta | 53.26 0-100 | 2024 | down 17.1% | falling |
| 80 | Bahrain | 53 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.7% | falling |
| 81 | Kuwait | 52.27 0-100 | 2024 | up 23.4% | falling |
| 82 | Sao Tome and Principe | 51.58 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.6% | flat |
| 83 | Croatia | 50.86 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 84 | Armenia | 50.78 0-100 | 2024 | up 45.4% | rising |
| 85 | Namibia | 50.42 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.1% | flat |
| 86 | Senegal | 50.14 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.2% | flat |
| 87 | Slovakia | 50.1 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.0% | flat |
| 88 | China | 49.65 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.9% | rising |
| 89 | Hungary | 48.65 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.3% | falling |
| 90 | Romania | 48.38 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 91 | Montenegro | 46.65 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 92 | Kazakhstan | 46.5 0-100 | 2024 | up 51.0% | rising |
| 93 | United States Virgin Islands | 46.4 0-100 | 2024 | down 21.1% | falling |
| 94 | Jamaica | 45.91 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.3% | flat |
| 95 | Solomon Islands | 45.02 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.2% | falling |
| 96 | Vanuatu | 44.81 0-100 | 2024 | down 22.0% | falling |
| 97 | Belize | 44.61 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.1% | flat |
| 98 | South Africa | 43.97 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 99 | Ghana | 43.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 100 | Tunisia | 43.4 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.8% | rising |
| 101 | Cuba | 43.27 0-100 | 2024 | down 19.5% | flat |
| 102 | Bulgaria | 43 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.6% | falling |
| 103 | Benin | 42.98 0-100 | 2024 | up 20.9% | rising |
| 104 | Vietnam | 42.76 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.5% | rising |
| 105 | Burkina Faso | 42.74 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.0% | falling |
| 107 | Dominican Republic | 42.48 0-100 | 2024 | up 30.5% | flat |
| 108 | Cote d'Ivoire | 42.09 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 109 | Moldova | 41.95 0-100 | 2024 | up 48.6% | flat |
| 110 | Colombia | 41.91 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.9% | flat |
| 111 | Tanzania | 41.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 112 | India | 41.88 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.1% | flat |
| 113 | Lesotho | 41.73 0-100 | 2024 | down 17.2% | rising |
| 114 | Argentina | 41.26 0-100 | 2024 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 115 | North Macedonia | 41.19 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.3% | rising |
| 116 | Gambia | 41.09 0-100 | 2024 | up 37.9% | flat |
| 117 | Maldives | 41.05 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.4% | falling |
| 118 | Trinidad and Tobago | 40.98 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.1% | falling |
| 119 | Guyana | 40.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.4% | flat |
| 120 | Suriname | 40.23 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.7% | falling |
| 121 | East Timor | 40.21 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.9% | falling |
| 122 | Sri Lanka | 40.07 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.4% | falling |
| 123 | Tonga | 39.77 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 124 | Brazil | 39.58 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 125 | Albania | 39.34 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 126 | Ethiopia | 38.99 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 127 | Zambia | 38.61 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.4% | rising |
| 128 | Mongolia | 38.02 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.1% | falling |
| 129 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 37.47 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.9% | falling |
| 130 | Morocco | 37.36 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 131 | Thailand | 37.18 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.2% | falling |
| 132 | Indonesia | 36.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 133 | Panama | 36.64 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.1% | falling |
| 134 | Serbia | 36.5 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.9% | rising |
| 135 | Turkey | 36.45 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.1% | flat |
| 136 | Palestine | 36.3 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 137 | El Salvador | 36.18 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.9% | flat |
| 138 | Philippines | 36.18 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 139 | Belarus | 36.15 0-100 | 2024 | down 19.3% | rising |
| 140 | Algeria | 35.84 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 141 | Niger | 35.37 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.0% | rising |
| 142 | Angola | 35.25 0-100 | 2024 | up 98.4% | rising |
| 143 | Nepal | 35.05 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.8% | falling |
| 144 | Malawi | 34.72 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.1% | flat |
| 145 | Togo | 34.43 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 146 | Ukraine | 34.24 0-100 | 2024 | up 30.8% | rising |
| 147 | Sierra Leone | 33.64 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 148 | Peru | 33.27 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 149 | Uzbekistan | 32.59 0-100 | 2024 | up 42.7% | rising |
| 150 | Azerbaijan | 32.17 0-100 | 2024 | up 27.9% | rising |
| 151 | Ecuador | 32.15 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 152 | Eswatini | 31.96 0-100 | 2024 | down 24.1% | falling |
| 153 | Papua New Guinea | 31.72 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.7% | flat |
| 154 | Kenya | 31.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 155 | Egypt | 31.12 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.0% | falling |
| 156 | Djibouti | 29.82 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.6% | falling |
| 157 | Russia | 29.82 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.2% | rising |
| 158 | Mauritania | 28.95 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 159 | Gabon | 28.89 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.9% | flat |
| 160 | Mexico | 28.81 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.7% | falling |
| 161 | Guatemala | 28.66 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 162 | Laos | 28.02 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.4% | falling |
| 163 | Mali | 28 0-100 | 2024 | down 19.6% | falling |
| 164 | Bolivia | 27.66 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.7% | falling |
| 165 | Madagascar | 27.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 166 | Paraguay | 27.11 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 167 | Liberia | 26.65 0-100 | 2024 | down 16.2% | rising |
| 168 | Mozambique | 26.36 0-100 | 2024 | down 13.3% | falling |
| 169 | Pakistan | 26.29 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.5% | flat |
| 170 | Bangladesh | 25.55 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 171 | Nigeria | 25.29 0-100 | 2024 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 172 | Uganda | 25.26 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.3% | falling |
| 173 | Kyrgyzstan | 24.85 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.0% | falling |
| 174 | Comoros | 24.76 0-100 | 2024 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 175 | Iran | 24.63 0-100 | 2024 | down 21.4% | falling |
| 176 | Guinea | 24.08 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 177 | Iraq | 23.46 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 178 | Tajikistan | 23.21 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 179 | Cameroon | 23.07 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 180 | Cambodia | 22.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.5% | falling |
| 181 | Honduras | 22.66 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.0% | flat |
| 182 | Zimbabwe | 22.52 0-100 | 2024 | up 28.3% | falling |
| 183 | Myanmar | 22.5 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 184 | Turkmenistan | 21.6 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.3% | falling |
| 185 | Lebanon | 21.46 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.7% | falling |
| 186 | Afghanistan | 21.36 0-100 | 2024 | up 31.4% | rising |
| 187 | Central African Republic | 21.34 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.3% | falling |
| 188 | Guinea-Bissau | 20.61 0-100 | 2024 | up 31.1% | falling |
| 189 | Chad | 19.7 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.8% | falling |
| 190 | Congo | 19.04 0-100 | 2024 | down 13.6% | falling |
| 191 | Nicaragua | 18.85 0-100 | 2024 | down 31.9% | falling |
| 192 | Burundi | 18.25 0-100 | 2024 | down 17.8% | falling |
| 193 | Equatorial Guinea | 18.04 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.1% | falling |
| 194 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 17.18 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.4% | rising |
| 195 | Libya | 16.85 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 196 | Haiti | 16.68 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.7% | falling |
| 197 | North Korea | 16.33 0-100 | 2024 | down 26.1% | falling |
| 198 | Sudan | 16.33 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 199 | Venezuela | 15.73 0-100 | 2024 | down 16.9% | falling |
| 200 | Eritrea | 14.8 0-100 | 2024 | down 41.0% | falling |
| 201 | Yemen | 14.74 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.6% | falling |
| 202 | Syria | 13.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.5% | falling |
| 203 | Somalia | 11.7 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 204 | South Sudan | 6.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 53.6% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 42.7 0-100
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).