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. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national corruption levels based on published CPI scores.
- Analyzing trends in public sector corruption perceptions over time.
- Correlating corruption perceptions with other socioeconomic indicators.
Strengths
- Scores are based on a defined 0-100 scale, providing a consistent metric.
- Data is published by Transparency International, a recognized authority on corruption research.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for flexible 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 18:58:18.859211; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Global coverage of countries and territories.