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 based on expert and business executive assessments. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national governance performance based on CPI scores.
- Analyzing trends in perceived public sector corruption over time.
- Correlating corruption perceptions with other socioeconomic indicators.
- Mapping the global distribution of corruption perceptions across territories.
Strengths
- Scores are standardized on a clear 0-100 scale defined by Transparency International.
- 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.
- Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the expert assessment methodology.
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:59:20.195080; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Countries and territories globally.