Control of corruption in Oceania

18 countries in Oceania, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
86.1 /100
New Zealand
Median country
57.8 /100
half above, half below
Range
32.3 to 86.1
Papua New Guinea - New Zealand

How to read it

Across 18 countries in Oceania, the highest value is in New Zealand (86.1 /100) and the lowest in Papua New Guinea (32.3 /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
1New Zealand86.1
2Australia85.1
3American Samoa71.8
4Guam71.8
5Federated States of Micronesia61.6
6Samoa61.3
7Tuvalu59.8
8Fiji58.8
9Palau58.4
10Nauru57.3
11Marshall Islands55.2
12Kiribati54.0
13New Caledonia50.8
14Solomon Islands44.9
15Vanuatu44.4
16French Polynesia44.1
17Tonga39.6
18Papua New Guinea32.3
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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