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Corruption Perceptions Index

14 years, 2012–2025 · 182 countries · 3 measures

Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index scores how corrupt a country’s public sector is believed to be, from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). It is built from 13 expert and business surveys rather than counted cases — the best available read on something nobody can measure directly.

This site holds every year from 2012 to 2025, read from Transparency International’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Corruption Perceptions Index, 2025
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14 years · 2,491 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0114 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2012bar height: countries covered, up to 1822025
Every year of Corruption Perceptions Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2025Newest182+2September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2024180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2023180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2022180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2021180+1 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2020180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2019180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2018180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2017180+4September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2016176+9 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2015168−6September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2014174−2September 6, 2026CSV
Show all 14 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2013176+1September 6, 2026CSV
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2012175—September 6, 2026CSV

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

027 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Corruption Perceptions Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rankTransparency International’s own rank, exactly as printed.Number · whole numbers1Denmark1812 share itmiddle 91660
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1820
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1820
CPI Scorecpi_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: CPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean).Number · whole numbers92 share it89Denmarkmiddle 39660
Data Sources UsedsourcesMeasureHow many independent expert and business surveys scored the country; a country needs at least three to receive a score.Number · whole numbers312 share it1010 share itmiddle 880
Standard Errorstandard_errorMeasureStandard error of the score, in CPI points: how uncertain the estimate is, given how far its source surveys disagree.Number · up to 7 decimals0.7440Zimbabwe8.2121Comorosmiddle 2.10411820
RegionregionGroupingTransparency International’s own grouping of the country.Text—60

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.

03182 countries across every year

Who is covered

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Corruption Perceptions Index, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa535251545454545454545454
Americas312632323232323232323233
Asia474749494949494848484849
Europe404040404040404040404040
Oceania334555566666
All174168176180180180180180180180180182

The newest 12 of 14 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2025
    + Belize+ Brunei
  • 2021
    + Fiji− Brunei
  • 2017
    + Equatorial Guinea+ Eswatini+ Seychelles+ Vanuatu
  • 2016
    + Bahamas+ Barbados+ Brunei+ Dominica+ Grenada+ Saint Lucia+ Maldives+ Solomon Islands+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Seychelles
  • 2015
    − Bahamas− Barbados− Dominica− Saint Lucia− Eswatini− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • 2014
    − Brunei− Equatorial Guinea
  • 2013
    + South Sudan

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Transparency International

  2. 2 · Their file

    Corruption Perceptions Index 2025

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    14 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as corruption-perceptions-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/corruption-perceptions-indexA key for Governance & Institutions in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored in whole numbers, 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.

Imported from Transparency International’s own results spreadsheet. The series starts at 2012 on TI’s instruction: earlier scores used a different scale and were only ever comparable within a single year.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked August 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0 (the data), CC BY-ND 4.0 (the website and report)

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

In plain words

Transparency International publishes the index data itself under CC BY 4.0. Its website and report carry CC BY-ND 4.0, which does not govern the data here.

A credit line

Source: Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Transparency International. Corruption Perceptions Index, 2012–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/corruption-perceptions-index

The publisher’s own citation: Transparency International. Corruption Perceptions Index. Berlin: Transparency International.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Corruption Perceptions Index: questions and answers

What is the Corruption Perceptions Index?

Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index scores how corrupt a country’s public sector is believed to be, from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). It is built from 13 expert and business surveys rather than counted cases — the best available read on something nobody can measure directly.

Which years of the Corruption Perceptions Index can I download?

All 14, from 2012 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does Transparency International rank countries on it?

Yes. The rank in these files is Transparency International’s own, exactly as printed.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to Transparency International. The licence text is linked on this page.

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