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. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21 and is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Ranking countries by perceived corruption levels based on the published CPI scores.
- Analyzing trends in public sector integrity over time using the index scores.
- Correlating corruption perceptions with other socioeconomic indicators mentioned in the description.
- Benchmarking governance performance across different countries and territories.
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.
- The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse.
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, as described.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:58:41.329422
- Geography
- Countries and territories globally