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Dataset · World Bank Group
27 years, 1996–2025 · 211 countries · 2 measures
Control of Corruption is one of the World Bank's six Worldwide Governance Indicators. It captures how far public power is seen to be used for private gain — from petty bribery to grand corruption — and how far the state is captured by elites and private interests, for about 210 countries every year since 1996.
This site holds every year from 1996 to 2025, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Control of Corruption · the file
0127 years
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control of Corruption, 2025Newest | 211 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2024 | 211 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2023 | 211 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2022 | 211 | +2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2021 | 209 | +2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2020 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2019 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2018 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2017 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2016 | 207 | −2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2015 | 209 | +2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2014 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control of Corruption, 2013 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2012 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2011 | 207 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2010 | 207 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2009 | 206 | +2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2008 | 204 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2007 | 203 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2006 | 202 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2005 | 202 | +2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2004 | 200 | +12 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2003 | 188 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2002 | 188 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 2000 | 187 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 1998 | 186 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Control of Corruption, 1996 | 185 | — | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: control-of-corruption-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| 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 | -2.09597 | 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 | 5.764 | 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.
03211 countries across every year
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 |
| Asia | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Europe | 42 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 |
| Oceania | 18 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| All | 207 | 209 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 209 | 211 | 211 | 211 | 211 |
The newest 12 of 27 years.
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.
04Provenance
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Control of Corruption 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
4 · Stored as
27 files, one per year
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 17 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
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.
05Reuse
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Control of Corruption, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Control of Corruption, 1996–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/control-of-corruption
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Worldwide Governance Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Control of Corruption by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
07Questions
Control of Corruption is one of the World Bank's six Worldwide Governance Indicators. It captures how far public power is seen to be used for private gain — from petty bribery to grand corruption — and how far the state is captured by elites and private interests, for about 210 countries every year since 1996.
All 27, from 1996 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.