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Political Corruption Index, 2002

2002, 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, 2002 covers 174 countries. Azerbaijan is highest, at 0.959; Denmark is lowest, at 0.002. The middle country reads 0.562. Against 2001, 50 values changed (31 up, 19 down), the same countries are covered.

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Political Corruption Index · Data for 2002

HighestAzerbaijan

0.959

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, 2002, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Political Corruption Index, 2002: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia0.959
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa0.957
=3DR CongoCODMiddle Africa0.939
=3SomaliaSOMEastern Africa0.939
5NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.936
6TajikistanTJKCentral Asia0.928
7GuineaGINWestern Africa0.923
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa0.920
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia0.918
10CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.917
11TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.905
12VenezuelaVENSouth America0.902
13CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.901
=14Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.900
=14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia0.900
16SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.896
17YemenYEMWestern Asia0.885
18GabonGABMiddle Africa0.882
19MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia0.878
=20GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia0.874
=20UkraineUKREastern Europe0.874
22TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.872
23ParaguayPRYSouth America0.871
24IraqIRQWestern Asia0.870
25ArmeniaARMWestern Asia0.866

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Azerbaijan0.959
  2. 2Chad0.957
  3. 3DR Congoshared0.939
  4. 3Somaliashared0.939
  5. 5Nigeria0.936

Lowest

  1. 174Denmark0.002
  2. 173Sweden0.004
  3. 172Norway0.006
  4. 171New Zealand0.009
  5. 170Singapore0.010

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.562. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 174 in both
  • 31 · 19rose · fell
  • 124unchanged

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 2002.

  • 159 distinct values among 174

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.939. 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 174 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 (2002). Political Corruption Index, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/political-corruption/2002

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