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 assessments. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national governance based on corruption perception scores.
- Analyzing global or regional trends in public sector corruption over time.
- Correlating corruption perceptions with other socio-economic indicators.
- Training models to predict governance outcomes based on expert assessments.
Strengths
- Scores are standardized on a 0 to 100 scale, enabling direct comparison.
- Data is produced by Transparency International, a recognized authority on corruption research.
- The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21.
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 18:58:56.171794
- Geography
- Countries and territories