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Control of corruption in Asia

50 countries in Asia, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking

87.8 /100

Singapore

Median country

40.7 /100

half above, half below

Range

14.2 to 87.8

Yemen - Singapore

How to read it

Across 50 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Singapore (87.8 /100) and the lowest in Yemen (14.2 /100).

The median country is at 40.7 /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
Singapore in chart	1	Singapore	87.8
Hong Kong in chart	2	Hong Kong	81.1
Bhutan in chart	3	Bhutan	77.8
Japan in chart	4	Japan	77.4
United Arab Emirates in chart	5	United Arab Emirates	71.3
Brunei in chart	6	Brunei	68.1
Israel in chart	7	Israel	67.3
South Korea in chart	8	South Korea	66.7
Qatar in chart	9	Qatar	65.8
Saudi Arabia in chart	10	Saudi Arabia	64.3
Macao in chart	11	Macao	59.6
Malaysia in chart	12	Malaysia	59.4
Cyprus in chart	13	Cyprus	58.8
Oman in chart	14	Oman	58.2
Jordan in chart	15	Jordan	54.2
Kuwait in chart	16	Kuwait	53.8
Bahrain in chart	17	Bahrain	53.7
Armenia in chart	18	Armenia	50.3
China in chart	19	China	49.5
Vietnam in chart	20	Vietnam	45.9
Georgia in chart	21	Georgia	45.2
Kazakhstan in chart	22	Kazakhstan	42.8
India in chart	23	India	42.4
Sri Lanka in chart	24	Sri Lanka	42.3
Maldives in chart	25	Maldives	41.3
Timor-Leste in chart	26	Timor-Leste	40.2
Mongolia in chart	27	Mongolia	39.0
Thailand in chart	28	Thailand	38.1
Indonesia in chart	29	Indonesia	37.7
Türkiye in chart	30	Türkiye	37.4
Philippines in chart	31	Philippines	36.5
Palestine in chart	32	Palestine	36.3
Uzbekistan in chart	33	Uzbekistan	34.1
Nepal in chart	34	Nepal	32.5
Azerbaijan in chart	35	Azerbaijan	32.3
Bangladesh in chart	36	Bangladesh	28.2
Laos in chart	37	Laos	28.0
Pakistan in chart	38	Pakistan	26.5
Kyrgyzstan in chart	39	Kyrgyzstan	25.8
Iran in chart	40	Iran	25.0
Lebanon in chart	41	Lebanon	23.3
Iraq in chart	42	Iraq	22.8
Tajikistan in chart	43	Tajikistan	22.8
Cambodia in chart	44	Cambodia	22.6
Myanmar in chart	45	Myanmar	21.7
Afghanistan in chart	46	Afghanistan	21.7
Turkmenistan in chart	47	Turkmenistan	21.7
North Korea in chart	48	North Korea	16.7
Syria in chart	49	Syria	15.4
Yemen in chart	50	Yemen	14.2

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

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