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 is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and was last updated on 2026-05-21.
Use Cases
- Rank countries by perceived public sector corruption based on the published CPI scores.
- Analyze trends in corruption perceptions over time for specific countries or regions.
- Correlate corruption scores with other socio-economic development indicators.
- Benchmark national governance performance against global or regional peers.
Strengths
- Scores are on a standardized 0-100 scale, enabling direct comparison.
- Data is published by Transparency International, a recognized authority on corruption research.
- License is permissive (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and redistribution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is 2026-05-21.
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:58:00.269032
- Geography
- Countries and territories globally.