Control of Corruption

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: control-of-corruption-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Control of Corruption: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	211	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	211	0
Control of Corruption (−2.5 to 2.5)control_of_corruptionHeadline	The headline figure: Control of Corruption (−2.5 to 2.5).	Number · up to 17 decimals	-2.09597South Sudan2.25937Denmarkmiddle -0.19727	205	0
Governance Score, Control of Corruption (0–100)governance_scoreMeasure	World Bank's own rescaling of the estimate onto 0–100, anchored by benchmark countries so that 100 is best; not a percentile.	Number · up to 15 decimals	5.764South Sudan93.618Denmarkmiddle 44.063	205	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 27 years.

Not in this dataset · 14 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

British Virgin IslandsChannel IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsGibraltarIsle of ManMontserratNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Control of Corruption 2025

   WB_WGI_WIDEF.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   27 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as control-of-corruption-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/control-of-corruption

From the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators, read from the Bank’s Data360 file in the same pass as government-effectiveness, voice-and-accountability, political-stability, rule-of-law and regulatory-quality. Dependent territories the Bank scores but the site does not cover as countries are left out.