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Control of corruption in Africa

54 countries in Africa, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking

72.8 /100

Seychelles

Median country

32.3 /100

half above, half below

Range

5.8 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 (5.8 /100).

The median country is at 32.3 /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

2025

In chart
Seychelles in chart	1	Seychelles	72.8
Cabo Verde in chart	2	Cabo Verde	66.3
Rwanda in chart	3	Rwanda	60.9
Botswana in chart	4	Botswana	59.9
Mauritius in chart	5	Mauritius	56.0
Senegal in chart	6	Senegal	51.1
Namibia in chart	7	Namibia	51.0
São Tomé and Principe in chart	8	São Tomé and Principe	50.6
Ghana in chart	9	Ghana	45.8
South Africa in chart	10	South Africa	45.4
Tunisia in chart	11	Tunisia	43.9
Benin in chart	12	Benin	43.8
Burkina Faso in chart	13	Burkina Faso	43.5
Côte d'Ivoire in chart	14	Côte d'Ivoire	42.5
Lesotho in chart	15	Lesotho	42.5
Tanzania in chart	16	Tanzania	41.3
Ethiopia in chart	17	Ethiopia	40.5
Zambia in chart	18	Zambia	38.9
Morocco in chart	19	Morocco	37.9
The Gambia in chart	20	The Gambia	37.7
Algeria in chart	21	Algeria	37.3
Malawi in chart	22	Malawi	34.7
Angola in chart	23	Angola	34.3
Egypt in chart	24	Egypt	33.9
Togo in chart	25	Togo	33.8
Niger in chart	26	Niger	33.2
Gabon in chart	27	Gabon	32.4
Sierra Leone in chart	28	Sierra Leone	32.2
Eswatini in chart	29	Eswatini	31.9
Kenya in chart	30	Kenya	30.8
Comoros in chart	31	Comoros	30.3
Djibouti in chart	32	Djibouti	29.3
Mali in chart	33	Mali	29.1
Mauritania in chart	34	Mauritania	29.0
Liberia in chart	35	Liberia	28.6
Madagascar in chart	36	Madagascar	27.1
Guinea in chart	37	Guinea	26.6
Nigeria in chart	38	Nigeria	26.5
Mozambique in chart	39	Mozambique	25.9
Uganda in chart	40	Uganda	25.8
Cameroon in chart	41	Cameroon	23.7
Zimbabwe in chart	42	Zimbabwe	22.0
Central African Republic in chart	43	Central African Republic	21.3
Chad in chart	44	Chad	21.0
Guinea-Bissau in chart	45	Guinea-Bissau	19.8
Republic of the Congo in chart	46	Republic of the Congo	19.3
Equatorial Guinea in chart	47	Equatorial Guinea	18.2
Democratic Republic of the Congo in chart	48	Democratic Republic of the Congo	18.0
Libya in chart	49	Libya	17.2
Burundi in chart	50	Burundi	17.0
Sudan in chart	51	Sudan	16.3
Eritrea in chart	52	Eritrea	15.6
Somalia in chart	53	Somalia	13.9
South Sudan in chart	54	South Sudan	5.8

World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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