Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2002

Control of Corruption, 2002

Figures for 2002, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Control of Corruption, 2002 covers 188 countries on 2 measures. Finland is highest, at 2.36177; Nigeria is lowest, at -1.67974. The middle country reads -0.23629. Against 2000, 187 values changed (67 up, 120 down), 1 country joined.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Control of Corruption · Data for 2002

HighestFinland

2.36177

LowestNigeria

-1.67974

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Control of Corruption, 2002, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 188 countries · select a heading to sort

Control of Corruption, 2002: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.3617795.6831
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe2.3184194.8086
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.2850794.1361
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2.2344993.1157
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.1191990.7899
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.1090090.5844
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.0692489.7823
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.0254088.8980
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2.0148788.6856
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.9916088.2163
11LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.9709387.7994
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.9359287.0931
13CanadaCANNorthern America1.8925586.2182
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe1.8699485.7622
15United StatesUSANorthern America1.8233184.8217
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.8106684.5664
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.5608279.5267
18ChileCHLSouth America1.5521279.3512
19SpainESPSouthern Europe1.5124578.5511
20BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.4421477.1328
21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.4324376.9369
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.3674175.6253
=23AndorraANDSouthern Europe1.3367475.0067
=23BermudaBMUNorthern America1.3367475.0067
=23Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean1.3367475.0067

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Finland2.36177
  2. 2Sweden2.31841
  3. 3Denmark2.28507
  4. 4New Zealand2.23449
  5. 5Iceland2.11919

Lowest

  1. 188Nigeria-1.67974
  2. 187Iraq-1.61890
  3. 186DR Congo-1.61047
  4. 185Paraguay-1.60851
  5. 184Haiti-1.58236

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads -0.23629. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Governance Score, Control of Corruption (0–100)

    HighestFinland95.6831

    LowestNigeria14.1598

    Middle country: 43.2764

032000 → 2002

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 67 · 120rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Timor-Leste

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • 180 distinct values among 188

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 19 decimals. 5 countries share 1.33674. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 188 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2002). Control of Corruption, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/control-of-corruption/2002

0627 held

Other years

07Questions

Control of Corruption, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest control of corruption in Control of Corruption, 2002?

Finland, at 2.36177, of the 188 countries in the file.

What year does Control of Corruption, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Control of Corruption, 2002 cover?

188.

Where can I download Control of Corruption, 2002?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Control of Corruption, 2002 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Control of Corruption, 2025.

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.