Corruption Perceptions Index scores and rankings for countries and territories, published by Transparency International. 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 was last updated on 2026-05-21.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national governance performance based on corruption perception scores
- Analyzing trends in public sector integrity over time for specific countries
- Correlating perceived corruption levels with other socioeconomic indicators
- Creating visualizations of global corruption perceptions rankings
Strengths
- Scores are on a standardized 0-100 scale, enabling direct comparison.
- Data is published by the authoritative organization Transparency International.
- The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21.
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 expert assessment methodology.
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:57:01.157972
- Geography
- Countries and territories worldwide.