Firms Expecting to Make Informal Payments to Public Officials

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: firms-informal-payments-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Firms Expecting to Make Informal Payments to Public Officials: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2026	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	181	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	181	0
Firms saying firms like theirs pay officials informally to get things done (%)firms_informal_paymentsHeadline	The headline figure: Firms saying firms like theirs pay officials informally to get things done (%).	Number · up to 10 decimals	0.0004 share it55.030Yemenmiddle 6.403	178	0
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	14	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 worse result.

One edition, covering 181 countries.

Not in this dataset · 44 places this site covers

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

AlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHaitiIranIsle of ManLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandSyriaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   enterprisesurveys.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Firms Expecting to Make Informal Payments to Public Officials (readings to 2026)

   WB_ES_WIDEF.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

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

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: firms-informal-payments-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/firms-informal-payments

World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey.

• Charted

  Firms Expecting to Make Informal Payments to Public Officials by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Governance & Institutions

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