Dataset · Transparency International
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.
Corruption Perceptions Index · the file
- Newest
- Corruption Perceptions Index, 2025
- Held
- 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.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2025Newest | 182 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2024 | 180 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2023 | 180 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2022 | 180 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2021 | 180 | +1 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2020 | 180 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2019 | 180 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2018 | 180 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2017 | 180 | +4 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2016 | 176 | +9 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2015 | 168 | −6 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2014 | 174 | −2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 14 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2013 | 176 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Corruption Perceptions Index, 2012 | 175 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank | Transparency International’s own rank, exactly as printed. | Number · whole numbers | 1 | 66 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 182 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 182 | 0 | |
CPI Scorecpi_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: CPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean). | Number · whole numbers | 92 share it89 | 66 | 0 | |
Data Sources UsedsourcesMeasure | How many independent expert and business surveys scored the country; a country needs at least three to receive a score. | Number · whole numbers | 312 share it1010 share itmiddle 8 | 8 | 0 | |
Standard Errorstandard_errorMeasure | Standard error of the score, in CPI points: how uncertain the estimate is, given how far its source surveys disagree. | Number · up to 7 decimals | 0.7440 | 182 | 0 | |
RegionregionGrouping | Transparency International’s own grouping of the country. | Text | — | 6 | 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.
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.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 53 | 52 | 51 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 31 | 26 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 33 |
| Asia | 47 | 47 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 49 |
| Europe | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| All | 174 | 168 | 176 | 180 | 180 | 180 | 180 | 180 | 180 | 180 | 180 | 182 |
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
Not in this dataset · 43 places this site covers
Transparency International 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
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Transparency International
2 · Their file
Corruption Perceptions Index 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.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.csv5 · 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.
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.