Transparency International publishes Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scores and rankings for countries and territories. Scores range from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) and reflect perceived levels of public sector corruption based on expert and business executive assessments. The dataset is available in CSV format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Compare perceived corruption levels between countries based on CPI scores.
- Analyze trends in public sector integrity over time using the index rankings.
- Correlate corruption perceptions with other socioeconomic development indicators.
Strengths
- Scores are on a standardized 0-100 scale, allowing for direct comparison.
- Data is published by Transparency International, a recognized authority on corruption research.
- The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the underlying expert assessments.
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:56:40.523263; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Countries and territories globally.