Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index scores and ranks countries and territories based on perceived public sector corruption. Scores range from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), derived from assessments by experts and business executives. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national corruption levels based on the published CPI scores.
- Analyzing trends in public sector integrity over time using the index rankings.
- Correlating perceived corruption with other socioeconomic indicators mentioned in the description.
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.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:57:32.913796; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Countries and territories globally.