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Control of corruption in Africa

54 countries in Africa, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking

72.8 /100

Seychelles

Median country

31.8 /100

half above, half below

Range

6.1 to 72.8

South Sudan - Seychelles

How to read it

Across 54 countries in Africa, the highest value is in Seychelles (72.8 /100) and the lowest in South Sudan (6.1 /100).

The median country is at 31.8 /100: half are above, half below.

Control of Corruption (CC) captures perceptions of the extent to which public power is used for private gain, including both petty and grand corruption, as well as capture of the state by elites and private interests. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to…

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Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators · licence

Control of corruption over time

/100

Ranking of countries

2024

In chart
Seychelles in chart	1	Seychelles	72.8
Cabo Verde in chart	2	Cabo Verde	66.9
Botswana in chart	3	Botswana	60.6
Rwanda in chart	4	Rwanda	60.5
Mauritius in chart	5	Mauritius	54.7
São Tomé and Principe in chart	6	São Tomé and Principe	51.6
Namibia in chart	7	Namibia	50.4
Senegal in chart	8	Senegal	50.1
South Africa in chart	9	South Africa	44.0
Ghana in chart	10	Ghana	43.9
Tunisia in chart	11	Tunisia	43.4
Benin in chart	12	Benin	43.0
Burkina Faso in chart	13	Burkina Faso	42.7
Côte d'Ivoire in chart	14	Côte d'Ivoire	42.1
Tanzania in chart	15	Tanzania	41.9
Lesotho in chart	16	Lesotho	41.7
The Gambia in chart	17	The Gambia	41.1
Ethiopia in chart	18	Ethiopia	39.0
Zambia in chart	19	Zambia	38.6
Morocco in chart	20	Morocco	37.4
Algeria in chart	21	Algeria	35.8
Niger in chart	22	Niger	35.4
Angola in chart	23	Angola	35.3
Malawi in chart	24	Malawi	34.7
Togo in chart	25	Togo	34.4
Sierra Leone in chart	26	Sierra Leone	33.6
Eswatini in chart	27	Eswatini	32.0
Kenya in chart	28	Kenya	31.6
Egypt in chart	29	Egypt	31.1
Djibouti in chart	30	Djibouti	29.8
Mauritania in chart	31	Mauritania	29.0
Gabon in chart	32	Gabon	28.9
Mali in chart	33	Mali	28.0
Madagascar in chart	34	Madagascar	27.4
Liberia in chart	35	Liberia	26.7
Mozambique in chart	36	Mozambique	26.4
Nigeria in chart	37	Nigeria	25.3
Uganda in chart	38	Uganda	25.3
Comoros in chart	39	Comoros	24.8
Guinea in chart	40	Guinea	24.1
Cameroon in chart	41	Cameroon	23.1
Zimbabwe in chart	42	Zimbabwe	22.5
Central African Republic in chart	43	Central African Republic	21.3
Guinea-Bissau in chart	44	Guinea-Bissau	20.6
Chad in chart	45	Chad	19.7
Republic of the Congo in chart	46	Republic of the Congo	19.0
Burundi in chart	47	Burundi	18.3
Equatorial Guinea in chart	48	Equatorial Guinea	18.0
Democratic Republic of the Congo in chart	49	Democratic Republic of the Congo	17.2
Libya in chart	50	Libya	16.9
Sudan in chart	51	Sudan	16.3
Eritrea in chart	52	Eritrea	14.8
Somalia in chart	53	Somalia	11.7
South Sudan in chart	54	South Sudan	6.1

World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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