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Political Corruption (V-Dem)

Political Corruption. V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy, 2018–2025.

Source: V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Unit: index 0–1 Parsed: 2026-08-03 Open source ↗

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Avg (2025)
0.5
0.00pp vs 2024
Improving
0
of 179 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
179
±0.5pp band

Political Corruption

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2018–2025.

0.30.40.50.60.7 20182019202020212022202320242025
AmericasEurope & Central AsiaSub-Saharan AfricaEast Asia & PacificMiddle East & North AfricaSouth AsiaAdvanced / other

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Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇧🇴 Bolivia 0.8 +0.11pp
🇬🇪 Georgia 0.3 +0.10pp
🇦🇲 Armenia 0.5 +0.10pp
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 0.8 +0.09pp
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau 0.8 +0.08pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇸🇾 Syria 0.6 -0.18pp
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 0.3 -0.18pp
🇧🇩 Bangladesh 0.8 -0.14pp
🇸🇩 Sudan 0.7 -0.12pp
🇲🇺 Mauritius 0.4 -0.10pp

By group

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Sub-Saharan Africa 0.00pp
Americas 0.00pp
Middle East & North Africa 0.00pp
Advanced / other 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 0.00pp
South Asia -0.10pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 0.6 0.00pp
Americas 27 0.5 0.00pp
Middle East & North Africa 20 0.5 0.00pp
South Asia 8 0.5 -0.10pp
Advanced / other 4 0.5 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 23 0.4 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 49 0.3 0.00pp

Political Corruption (V-Dem) — full ranking

Every entity in this dataset, in HTML. The interactive panel above shows the same numbers; this is the one that survives without JavaScript.

179 entities, 2025, change vs 2024. Highest first.
#EntityPolitical CorruptionChange
1🇻🇪 Venezuela1-0.00pp
2🇹🇩 Chad10.00pp
3🇳🇮 Nicaragua0.90.00pp
4🇨🇲 Cameroon0.9+0.01pp
5🇰🇭 Cambodia0.90.00pp
6🇾🇪 Yemen0.9-0.01pp
7🇹🇲 Turkmenistan0.9+0.01pp
8🇸🇸 South Sudan0.9+0.03pp
9🇹🇯 Tajikistan0.9+0.01pp
10🇮🇶 Iraq0.9+0.04pp
11🇦🇿 Azerbaijan0.9-0.01pp
12🇺🇬 Uganda0.9+0.05pp
13🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo0.9-0.02pp
14🇲🇬 Madagascar0.9-0.00pp
15🇱🇷 Liberia0.90.00pp
16🇸🇴 Somalia0.90.00pp
17🇲🇲 Burma/Myanmar0.90.00pp
18🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea0.9+0.02pp
19🇨🇫 Central African Republic0.9+0.00pp
20🇿🇼 Zimbabwe0.9+0.03pp
21🇧🇮 Burundi0.8+0.02pp
22🇵🇭 Philippines0.8+0.00pp
23🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo0.8+0.00pp
24🇳🇬 Nigeria0.8-0.10pp
25🇱🇧 Lebanon0.8-0.01pp
26🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau0.8+0.08pp
27🇲🇷 Mauritania0.8-0.03pp
28🇺🇿 Uzbekistan0.8-0.01pp
29🇱🇾 Libya0.8-0.01pp
30🇬🇳 Guinea0.8-0.05pp
31🇹🇷 Türkiye0.8+0.00pp
32🇵🇰 Pakistan0.8-0.02pp
33🇵🇾 Paraguay0.80.00pp
34🇮🇩 Indonesia0.8+0.03pp
35🇷🇸 Serbia0.8+0.03pp
36🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan0.80.00pp
37🇭🇹 Haiti0.80.00pp
38🇷🇺 Russia0.8-0.01pp
39🇧🇩 Bangladesh0.8-0.14pp
40🇰🇲 Comoros0.8-0.04pp
41🇦🇫 Afghanistan0.8+0.09pp
42🇮🇷 Iran0.8-0.02pp
43🇱🇦 Laos0.8+0.01pp
44🇧🇴 Bolivia0.8+0.11pp
45🇹🇬 Togo0.8-0.02pp
46🇲🇰 North Macedonia0.8-0.00pp
47🇭🇳 Honduras0.8+0.00pp
48🇪🇷 Eritrea0.8+0.02pp
49🇰🇿 Kazakhstan0.7+0.01pp
50🇪🇬 Egypt0.70.00pp
51🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina0.7-0.04pp
52🇲🇱 Mali0.7+0.00pp
53🇬🇦 Gabon0.7-0.00pp
54🇸🇩 Sudan0.7-0.12pp
55🇩🇯 Djibouti0.7+0.02pp
56🇲🇿 Mozambique0.7-0.00pp
57🇲🇳 Mongolia0.7+0.01pp
58🇮🇳 India0.7+0.00pp
59🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea0.7-0.01pp
60🇸🇻 El Salvador0.7-0.00pp
61🇲🇦 Morocco0.7+0.01pp
62🇰🇵 North Korea0.70.00pp
63🇩🇿 Algeria0.70.00pp
64🇪🇨 Ecuador0.7-0.00pp
65🇧🇬 Bulgaria0.6+0.06pp
66🇺🇦 Ukraine0.6+0.01pp
67🇨🇺 Cuba0.6+0.01pp
68🇹🇭 Thailand0.60.00pp
69🇵🇪 Peru0.6+0.01pp
70🇲🇼 Malawi0.6-0.09pp
71🇦🇱 Albania0.6-0.00pp
72🇸🇾 Syria0.6-0.18pp
73🇬🇹 Guatemala0.6-0.07pp
74🇬🇭 Ghana0.6-0.02pp
75🇸🇧 Solomon Islands0.60.00pp
76🇨🇮 Ivory Coast0.6-0.00pp
77🇳🇪 Niger0.6+0.02pp
78🇩🇴 Dominican Republic0.6+0.03pp
79🇲🇽 Mexico0.6-0.01pp
80🇸🇱 Sierra Leone0.60.00pp
81🇦🇴 Angola0.6+0.02pp
82🇰🇪 Kenya0.6+0.01pp
83🇳🇵 Nepal0.6-0.06pp
84Somaliland0.6-0.04pp
85🇨🇳 China0.6+0.00pp
86🇸🇿 Eswatini0.6+0.01pp
87🇿🇦 South Africa0.5+0.02pp
88🇪🇹 Ethiopia0.5+0.01pp
89Zanzibar0.5-0.00pp
90🇬🇾 Guyana0.50.00pp
91🇭🇺 Hungary0.5-0.01pp
92🇵🇦 Panama0.5+0.00pp
93🇧🇭 Bahrain0.5+0.01pp
94🇱🇸 Lesotho0.5-0.08pp
95🇦🇲 Armenia0.5+0.10pp
96🇻🇳 Vietnam0.5-0.02pp
97🇵🇸 Palestine/West Bank0.5+0.02pp
98🇲🇪 Montenegro0.4-0.04pp
99🇿🇲 Zambia0.4+0.08pp
100🇧🇷 Brazil0.4-0.02pp
101🇯🇴 Jordan0.4-0.01pp
102🇷🇴 Romania0.4+0.03pp
103🇷🇼 Rwanda0.40.00pp
104🇦🇷 Argentina0.4+0.02pp
105🇹🇳 Tunisia0.40.00pp
106🇧🇾 Belarus0.4-0.01pp
107🇸🇳 Senegal0.40.00pp
108🇨🇴 Colombia0.4-0.01pp
109🇧🇫 Burkina Faso0.4-0.01pp
110Palestine/Gaza0.4+0.03pp
111🇲🇺 Mauritius0.4-0.10pp
112🇽🇰 Kosovo0.3+0.08pp
113🇰🇼 Kuwait0.3+0.03pp
114🇻🇺 Vanuatu0.3+0.05pp
115🇶🇦 Qatar0.3+0.01pp
116🇹🇿 Tanzania0.3+0.05pp
117🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia0.30.00pp
118🇲🇩 Moldova0.30.00pp
119🇲🇾 Malaysia0.30.00pp
120🇲🇻 Maldives0.3-0.10pp
121🇸🇰 Slovakia0.3+0.01pp
122🇬🇪 Georgia0.3+0.10pp
123🇫🇯 Fiji0.30.00pp
124🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe0.3+0.00pp
125🇨🇻 Cape Verde0.3+0.03pp
126🇱🇰 Sri Lanka0.3-0.18pp
127🇬🇷 Greece0.3+0.04pp
128🇳🇦 Namibia0.3-0.01pp
129🇬🇲 The Gambia0.3-0.01pp
130🇭🇷 Croatia0.30.00pp
131🇴🇲 Oman0.30.00pp
132🇹🇱 Timor-Leste0.3+0.03pp
133🇹🇼 Taiwan0.2-0.01pp
134🇯🇲 Jamaica0.2+0.02pp
135🇨🇷 Costa Rica0.20.00pp
136🇧🇼 Botswana0.2-0.04pp
137🇧🇯 Benin0.20.00pp
138🇲🇹 Malta0.20.00pp
139🇸🇷 Suriname0.2+0.03pp
140🇨🇿 Czechia0.2+0.08pp
141🇵🇹 Portugal0.20.00pp
142🇨🇾 Cyprus0.2+0.01pp
143🇱🇹 Lithuania0.2-0.01pp
144🇮🇹 Italy0.2-0.02pp
145🇰🇷 South Korea0.20.00pp
146🇧🇹 Bhutan0.10.00pp
147🇪🇸 Spain0.1+0.01pp
148🇮🇱 Israel0.1-0.00pp
149🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates0.10.00pp
150🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago0.10.00pp
151🇦🇹 Austria0.1-0.02pp
152🇭🇰 Hong Kong0.1-0.00pp
153🇵🇱 Poland0.1-0.02pp
154🇸🇮 Slovenia0.1+0.02pp
155🇨🇱 Chile0.10.00pp
156🇧🇧 Barbados0.10.00pp
157🇱🇻 Latvia0.1-0.00pp
158🇺🇸 United States of America0.1+0.01pp
159🇫🇷 France0.1+0.01pp
160🇺🇾 Uruguay0.1+0.00pp
161🇸🇨 Seychelles0.1+0.01pp
162🇯🇵 Japan0.10.00pp
163🇬🇧 United Kingdom0-0.00pp
164🇮🇪 Ireland00.00pp
165🇧🇪 Belgium00.00pp
166🇫🇮 Finland0+0.01pp
167🇦🇺 Australia00.00pp
168🇳🇱 Netherlands0+0.01pp
169🇨🇦 Canada0-0.00pp
170🇪🇪 Estonia00.00pp
171🇱🇺 Luxembourg0-0.00pp
172🇩🇪 Germany00.00pp
173🇨🇭 Switzerland0-0.00pp
174🇮🇸 Iceland0-0.01pp
175🇳🇿 New Zealand0+0.00pp
176🇸🇬 Singapore0-0.02pp
177🇳🇴 Norway00.00pp
178🇸🇪 Sweden00.00pp
179🇩🇰 Denmark00.00pp

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