Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) provides scores and rankings for countries and territories. Scores range from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), reflecting perceived levels of public sector corruption based on expert and business executive assessments. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21.
Use Cases
- Rank countries by perceived corruption levels based on CPI scores.
- Analyze trends in public sector corruption over time based on the index.
- Correlate corruption perceptions with other socio-economic indicators mentioned in the description.
- Benchmark governance performance across different countries and territories.
Strengths
- Scores are on a standardized 0-100 scale, allowing for direct comparison.
- Published by the authoritative organization Transparency International.
- License is clearly stated as CC-BY-4.0.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data reflects perceptions rather than direct measures of corruption.
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:57:15.286015; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Countries and territories globally.