Control of corruption in North America

29 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
80.9 /100
Canada
Median country
54.9 /100
half above, half below
Range
16.7 to 80.9
Haiti - Canada

How to read it

Across 29 countries in North America, the highest value is in Canada (80.9 /100) and the lowest in Haiti (16.7 /100).

The median country is at 54.9 /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

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Canada80.9
2Greenland77.9
3Bahamas72.8
4Barbados72.7
5Bermuda71.7
6United States69.9
7Aruba65.4
8Saint Vincent and the Grenadines62.1
9Costa Rica61.6
10Cayman Islands60.1
11Dominica58.6
12Grenada57.6
13Saint Lucia56.9
14Puerto Rico55.9
15Saint Kitts and Nevis54.9
16Antigua and Barbuda53.6
17United States Virgin Islands46.4
18Jamaica45.9
19Belize44.6
20Cuba43.3
21Dominican Republic42.5
22Trinidad and Tobago41.0
23Panama36.6
24El Salvador36.2
25Mexico28.8
26Guatemala28.7
27Honduras22.7
28Nicaragua18.9
29Haiti16.7
World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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