The United States scored 65 points out of 100 on the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Corruption Index - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Indonesia scored 37 points out of 100 on the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Indonesia Corruption Index - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Indonesia: Freedom from corruption index (0-100): The latest value from 2025 is 40 points, an increase from 39 points in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 44 points, based on data from 182 countries. Historically, the average for Indonesia from 1995 to 2025 is 28 points. The minimum value, 10 points, was reached in 1995 while the maximum of 45 points was recorded in 2017.

Bulgaria: Freedom from corruption index (0-100): The latest value from 2025 is 49 points, an increase from 44 points in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 44 points, based on data from 182 countries. Historically, the average for Bulgaria from 1995 to 2025 is 38 points. The minimum value, 29 points, was reached in 2000 while the maximum of 49 points was recorded in 2025.

According to the 2024 Corruption Perception Index, South Sudan, with a score of 8, is perceived to be the most corrupt country in the world. Somalia, Venezuela, and Syria followed behind. Points considered when calculating the perception of countries' levels of corruption include: bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of state funds, and how effective public sector anti-corruption efforts have proven to be. A score of 0 indicates high perceptions of corruption, and a score of 100 indicates that no corruption is perceived in the respective country.

Micronesia: Freedom from corruption index (0-100): The latest value from 2025 is 56 points, a decline from 57 points in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 44 points, based on data from 182 countries. Historically, the average for Micronesia from 2009 to 2025 is 37 points. The minimum value, 22 points, was reached in 2020 while the maximum of 62 points was recorded in 2023.

Colombia's corruption perception index remained stable at 39 points from 2020 to 2024. Overall, the score had remained constant from 36 to 40 points since 2012. The worst possible score in perception of corruption is 0, whereas a score of 100 indicates that no corruption is perceived in the respective country.This index is a composite indicator that includes data on the perception of corruption in areas such as bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of state funds, and effectiveness of governments' anti-corruption efforts.

Israel: Freedom from corruption index (0-100): The latest value from 2025 is 64 points, a decline from 66 points in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 44 points, based on data from 182 countries. Historically, the average for Israel from 1995 to 2025 is 62 points. The minimum value, 30 points, was reached in 1995 while the maximum of 80 points was recorded in 1999.

Russia: Corruption Perceptions Index, 100 = no corruption: The latest value from 2024 is 22 points, a decline from 26 points in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 43 points, based on data from 177 countries. Historically, the average for Russia from 2001 to 2024 is 26 points. The minimum value, 21 points, was reached in 2008 while the maximum of 30 points was recorded in 2020.

Georgia: Freedom from corruption index (0-100): The latest value from 2025 is 59 points, a decline from 61 points in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 44 points, based on data from 182 countries. Historically, the average for Georgia from 1996 to 2025 is 38 points. The minimum value, 10 points, was reached in 1996 while the maximum of 65 points was recorded in 2017.

In 2024, Ecuador's corruption perception index totaled 32 points. In comparison to 2020, this score represents a five points decrease. This index is a composite indicator that includes data on the perception of corruption in areas such as bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of state funds, and effectiveness of governments' anti-corruption efforts. The worst possible score in corruption perception is 0, whereas a score of 100 indicates that no corruption is perceived in the respective country.

The Anticorruption Projects Database (Database) includes information about USAID projects with anticorruption interventions implemented worldwide between 2007 and 2013. The Database includes about 300 long-term country projects and regional or short-term projects. Projects were identified and information collected by the six Implementing Partners (IP) of the ENGAGE Indefinite Quantity Contract. Criteria for selecting projects included: distinctive project interventions targeted at reducing corruption or promoting government integrity, accountability and transparency that ultimately results in reducing opportunities to corruption. Availability of sufficient information about the projects was another criterion for selecting them to the Database. This included but was not limited to project description and results, implementation timeframe, project value, and implementer. After reviewing approximately 2000 projects, more than 300 were identified for the Database.

Israel: Control of corruption (-2.5 weak; 2.5 strong): The latest value from 2023 is 0.83 points, an increase from 0.78 points in 2022. In comparison, the world average is -0.04 points, based on data from 193 countries. Historically, the average for Israel from 1996 to 2023 is 0.9 points. The minimum value, 0.54 points, was reached in 2020 while the maximum of 1.35 points was recorded in 1996.

United States US: Control of Corruption: Estimate data was reported at 1.381 NA in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.373 NA for 2016. United States US: Control of Corruption: Estimate data is updated yearly, averaging 1.397 NA from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2017, with 19 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.924 NA in 2002 and a record low of 1.269 NA in 2011. United States US: Control of Corruption: Estimate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WGI: Country Governance Indicators. Control of Corruption captures perceptions of the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as 'capture' of the state by elites and private interests. Estimate gives the country's score on the aggregate indicator, in units of a standard normal distribution, i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5.

Chad: Freedom from corruption index (0-100): The latest value from 2025 is 14 points, an increase from 11 points in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 44 points, based on data from 182 countries. Historically, the average for Chad from 1997 to 2025 is 15 points. The minimum value, 10 points, was reached in 1997 while the maximum of 25 points was recorded in 2017.

Brazil's Corruption Perceptions Index score remained stable at 38 points between 2020 and 2022. In 2023, the country scored 34 points. Brazil's Corruption Perception Index is nearly half of Uruguay's, which is considered the Latin American country with the best corruption perception.This index is a composite indicator that includes data on the perception of corruption in areas such as bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of state funds, and effectiveness of governments' anti-corruption efforts. The worst possible score is 0, whereas a score of 100 indicates that no corruption is perceived in the respective country. Lava Jato Corruption in Brazilian public institutions is a recurrent theme. In 2014, the police operation ‘Car Wash’ debunked one of the biggest corruption scandals in this South American country. High-level executives of the state-owned Petrobras, short for Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., were accepting bribes from mainly construction firms in exchange for contracts. The oil and energy company, one of the most valuable Brazilian brands, saw its revenue at the period dropped significantly due to a plummeting of petroleum prices and the corruption scandals. Besides impacting the economy, with the loss of thousands of jobs, the corruption scandal involved several businessmen and politicians, including ex-presidents from other countries. The construction and engineering company Odebrecht SA was also involved, in 2016 alone, it generated around 1.9 billion U.S. dollars in Brazil as a result of bribery.The ‘Car Wash’ operation added to the recession that was already developing and ushered in deep political unrest in Brazil. It affected the ruling of the Worker’s Party (PT) in addition to government officials such as president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, accused of receiving kickbacks from corporate firms. This development reached Ex-President Dilma Rousseff as well, who was impeached due to charges of manipulating the federal budget to conceal the country’s deficit, and her vice-president and successor as head of government, Michel Temer, who was later arrested also in relation to the ‘Car Wash’ operation. President Lula elected for the third time Although accused of corruption during the "Car Wash" operation, former President Lula da Silva had his conviction overturned by the Federal Supreme Court, which ruled that Lula's rights were not respected during the trial. In the 2022 Brazilian elections the former President was once again elected, as he was considered to be the best presidential candidate to fight corruption, with 34 percent of respondents believed Lula was the most qualified one, against 22 percent who believed it was incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro. Despite this, in 2023, a survey showed that 4.5 percent of Brazilians said corruption was the most serious issue the country faced.

Belgium: Freedom from corruption index (0-100): The latest value from 2025 is 79 points, unchanged from 79 points in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 44 points, based on data from 182 countries. Historically, the average for Belgium from 1996 to 2025 is 72 points. The minimum value, 53 points, was reached in 1999 while the maximum of 90 points was recorded in 1996.

The 2018 BCI index

The Bayesian Corruption Index is a composite index of the perceived overall level of corruption. Corruption: With corruption, we refer to the “abuse of public power for private gain." Perceived corruption: Given the hidden nature of corruption, direct measures are hard to come by or inherently flawed (e.g. the number of corruption convictions). Instead, we amalgamate the opinions on the level of corruption from the country’s inhabitants, companies operating there, NGOs, and officials working both in governmental and supra-governmental organizations. Composite: It combines the information from 17 different surveys and 110 different survey questions that cover the perceived level of corruption.

It is an alternative to the other well-known indicators of corruption perception: the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) published by Transparency International and the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) published by the World Bank. Methodologically, it is most closely related to the latter as the methodology used in the construction of the BCI can be seen as an augmented version of the Worldwide Governance Indicators’ methodology. The augmentation allows an increase in the coverage. In contrast to the WGI or CPI, the underlying source data are entered without any ex-ante imputations, averaging or other manipulations. This results in an index representing the underlying data, unbiased by the composer’s modelling choices.

The latest version of the index is the 2023 version. It covers 221 countries from 1984 to 2021. For replicatability's sake, the older index versions are also made available. The 2014 version of the index is available for 219 countries from 1984 to 2014 The 2018 version of the index is available for 219 countries from 1984 to 2017

Please cite as: Samuel Standaert (2015) "Divining the Level of Corruption: a Bayesian State Space Approach", Journal of Comparative Economics, 43 (3) 782-803. DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2014.05.007

Andorra AD: Control of Corruption: Estimate data was reported at 1.251 NA in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.270 NA for 2022. Andorra AD: Control of Corruption: Estimate data is updated yearly, averaging 1.265 NA from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2023, with 25 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.335 NA in 1998 and a record low of 1.119 NA in 2004. Andorra AD: Control of Corruption: Estimate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Andorra – Table AD.World Bank.WGI: Governance: Country Governance Indicators. Control of Corruption captures perceptions of the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as 'capture' of the state by elites and private interests. Estimate gives the country's score on the aggregate indicator, in units of a standard normal distribution, i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5.

In Bolivia, the corruption perception index score reached 28 points in 2024, a slight decrease in comparison to the previous year. This represents less than half of the score recorded that year by the Bahamas, ranked fourth-best corruption perception in Latin America.This index is a composite indicator that includes data on the perception of corruption in areas such as bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of state funds, and effectiveness of governments' anti-corruption efforts. The worst possible score in perception of corruption is 0, whereas a score of 100 indicates that no corruption is perceived in the respective country.