Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index scores and rankings for countries and territories. Scores range from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) and reflect 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 corruption levels based on CPI scores
- Analyzing trends in public sector corruption perceptions over time
- Correlating corruption perceptions with other socio-economic indicators
Strengths
- Scores are standardized on a 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
Provenance
- Source
- Transparency International
- Collection Method
- Assessments by experts and business executives
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-21 18:59:52.578367
- Geography
- Countries and territories