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Political Corruption Index, 1994

1994, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's Political Corruption Index asks how pervasive corruption is across the state — bribery and embezzlement in the executive and the wider public sector, and corruption in the legislature and the courts. It runs from 0 to 1, and unlike V-Dem's other indices a higher figure is worse: more corrupt.

Political Corruption Index, 1994 covers 171 countries. Somalia is highest, at 0.958; Denmark is lowest, at 0.002. The middle country reads 0.540. Against 1993, 49 values changed (30 up, 19 down), the same countries are covered.

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Political Corruption Index · Data for 1994

HighestSomalia

0.958

LowestDenmark

0.002

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Political Corruption Index, 1994, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 171 countries · select a heading to sort

Political Corruption Index, 1994: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa0.958
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa0.955
3IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.940
4AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia0.928
5CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.924
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa0.915
7TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.905
8CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.901
9ParaguayPRYSouth America0.893
10AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia0.890
11IraqIRQWestern Asia0.888
12SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe0.884
13GabonGABMiddle Africa0.882
14MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia0.878
15TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.872
16SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.869
17KenyaKENEastern Africa0.862
18MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa0.861
19LibyaLBYNorthern Africa0.860
20GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia0.858
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa0.853
22TogoTGOWestern Africa0.851
23GuineaGINWestern Africa0.846
24HondurasHNDCentral America0.845
25Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.841

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Somalia0.958
  2. 2Chad0.955
  3. 3Indonesia0.940
  4. 4Azerbaijan0.928
  5. 5Cameroon0.924

Lowest

  1. 171Denmark0.002
  2. 170Sweden0.004
  3. 169Norway0.006
  4. 168New Zealand0.009
  5. 167Singapore0.010

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.540. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 49values changed, of 171 in both
  • 30 · 19rose · fell
  • 122unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. 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

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1994.

  • 162 distinct values among 171

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.840. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 171 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-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (1994). Political Corruption Index, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/political-corruption/1994

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