CPI 2024: Trouble at the top
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Many top-scoring countries in this year's CPI are prime targets for corrupt actors to launder and safeguard their ill-gotten wealth.
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Corruption Perceptions Index
Scoring 182 countries around the world, the Corruption Perceptions Index is the leading global indicator of public sector corruption.
Netherlands has a score of 78 this year, with a change of 0 since last year, meaning it ranks 8 out of 182 countries.
Find out about key corruption issues in Netherlands in CPI 2024 for Western Europe & EU: Leaders’ hollow efforts cause worsening corruption levels
Netherlands
- Score
- 78/100
- Rank
- 8/182
- Score change
Score changes 2012 - 2025
Global Corruption Barometer
Since its debut in 2003, the Global Corruption Barometer has surveyed the experiences of everyday people confronting corruption around the world. Through our barometer, tens of thousands of people around the globe are asked about their views and experiences, making it the only worldwide public opinion survey on corruption.
36%
Percentage of people who thought corruption increased in the previous 12 months*
2%
Percentage of public service users paid a bribe in the previous 12 months*
*Since the most recent publication of the GCB - European Union
Our activity in Netherlands
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CPI 2024 for Western Europe & EU: Leaders’ hollow efforts cause worsening corruption levels
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In fragile times, Europe's ability to combat corruption is falling short, hindering the bloc’s response to challenges that range from the climate crisis to fraying rule of law and…
G20 & corporate transparency: Put your money where your principles are
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Ten years weren’t yet enough for G20 to establish adequate beneficial ownership registers.
CPI 2023: Trouble at the top
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Top-scoring countries on the CPI have long fuelled transnational corruption. It's time they embrace change.
Press releases
+ MoreCorruption Perceptions Index 2025: Europe must step up leadership in the fight against corruption
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2023 Corruption Perceptions Index: Weak checks & balances undermining anti-corruption efforts in Western Europe & EU
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Nigeria oil bribery case: Netherlands and US must reopen investigations into Eni and Shell’s role
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2022 Corruption Perceptions Index reveals undue influence and fragmented anti-corruption efforts threaten progress in Western Europe & EU
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Whistleblowing programme
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Features our work to improve whistleblower’s protection, including our policy recommendations and our achievements in around the world.
Integrity watch 3.0: Generating value from data to manage risks and detect corruption in Europe
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The Integrity Watch Project seeks to provide members of society with a series of online tools for the detection and prevention of political corruption in eight EU Member States.
Strengthening and fostering enabling environment for whistleblowers in the European Union (SAFE for Whistleblowers)
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SAFE for Whistleblowers supports the establishment of an enabling environment for the protection of whistleblowers in the European Union.
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Up to the Task? The State of Play in Countries Committed to Freezing and Seizing Russian Dirty Money
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Despite strong early pledges following the invasion of Ukraine, G7 and other leading economies are not sufficiently equipped to bring Russia's kleptocrats to justice, report finds.
Global Corruption Barometer: European Union 2021
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The Global Corruption Barometer – European Union is the largest, most detailed set of public opinion data on people’s views and experiences of corruption and bribery in all 27 EU…
Building on the EU Directive for Whistleblower Protection
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To support effective implementation of the EU's Whistleblower Protection Directive, we have prepared this analysis, which provides recommendations aimed at closing loopholes and…
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From policy to practice: Building whistleblower systems that work
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Netherlands showing other EU countries what not to do when transposing EU whistleblower directive
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Helping whistleblower laws deliver the protection they promise
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Dutch companies falling short of compliance with new EU Whistleblower Directive
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