Corruption Perceptions Index 2024

Corruption affects billions of people worldwide, destroying lives, undermining human rights and exacerbating global crises. It blocks real action where it’s needed most – stalling critical policies, enabling impunity, and fuelling inequalities.

Backed by sophisticated international money-laundering networks, large-scale corruption empowers autocrats, illicitly enriches private actors and weakens democracy everywhere. No nation is immune to this problem, and ignoring corruption comes at a cost we can no longer afford. Every country has a role to play in stopping it.

The Corruption Perceptions Index scores 180 countries and territories according to the levels of public-sector corruption perceived by experts and businesspeople. It relies on 13 independent data sources and uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.

This publication presents the full results as well as a global analysis of corruption. It also explores the harmful effect corruption has on climate action.