Control of corruption in North America

29 countries in North America, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
80.2 /100
Canada
Median country
57.8 /100
half above, half below
Range
17.0 to 80.2
Haiti - Canada

How to read it

Across 29 countries in North America, the highest value is in Canada (80.2 /100) and the lowest in Haiti (17.0 /100).

The median country is at 57.8 /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

2025
In chart Share of the highest value
1Canada80.2
2Greenland77.9
3Barbados72.8
4Bermuda71.8
5Bahamas69.1
6Aruba65.6
7United States65.5
8Saint Vincent and the Grenadines62.6
9Costa Rica62.0
10Cayman Islands60.2
11Antigua and Barbuda59.9
12Puerto Rico59.0
13Dominica58.9
14Grenada58.2
15Saint Lucia57.8
16Saint Kitts and Nevis54.5
17Dominican Republic48.2
18United States Virgin Islands46.7
19Jamaica46.2
20Belize45.2
21Trinidad and Tobago41.2
22El Salvador37.0
23Panama36.8
24Cuba33.4
25Guatemala29.4
26Mexico29.0
27Honduras22.9
28Nicaragua20.2
29Haiti17.0
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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