Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 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 governance performance based on CPI scores.
- Analyzing global or regional corruption trends over time.
- Correlating perceived corruption levels with other socioeconomic indicators.
- Creating visualizations of country rankings for advocacy or research reports.
Strengths
- Scores are on a standardized 0-100 scale, enabling direct comparison.
- Data is published by Transparency International, a recognized authority on corruption research.
- The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad 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 expert and business executive assessments.
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:59:25.429094; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Countries and territories globally.