Country profile - AGO

Corruption in Angola

18 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 45.3 (2022).

Grand: 31.2 Petty: 30.4 Latest observed: 2019

Angola: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Angola is Lunda Norte (35.5/100), and the least corrupt is Uige (53.8/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 18 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Angola's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 45.3/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Lunda Norte (SCI 35.5/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Uige (SCI 53.8/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 31.2/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 30.4/100 (last directly observed in 2019).
  • Trend: Angola's SCI moved from 39.4/100 (1995) to 45.3/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 18 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Angola compares: SCD vs. the CPI and World Bank

The Subnational Corruption Index is scored 0–100 on the same orientation as Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (higher = cleaner). The difference: the CPI and the World Bank measure the perceptions of experts and business executives and report one national number, while the SCI is built from what ordinary households perceive and experience — and it breaks Angola into 18 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 45.3 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 33 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -0.6 ≈ −2.5 to 2.5 Aggregated expert sources

Most recent year — SCI 2022, CPI 2022, CCI 2022. The SCD also publishes region-anchored SUB-CPI and SUB-CCI series so the CPI and World Bank measures can be read at the regional level.

SCI trajectory - 1995-2022

Country-level mean of the Subnational Corruption Index, averaged across all 18 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

46 35 1995 2022

Source: SCD v1.0 (Comprehensive Dataset). Years where the panel was filled by inter/extrapolation are included in the country mean.

Regions (18)

Each row is a sub-national region with its latest SCI score. Click into any row for the region's full time series.

# Region GDL code Years Latest SCI
1 Lunda Norte AGOr208 1995-2022 35.5
2 Huambo AGOr210 1995-2022 37
3 Benguela AGOr209 1995-2022 37.7
4 Kuanza Norte AGOr205 1995-2022 39.8
5 Bie AGOr211 1995-2022 41.2
6 Namibe AGOr214 1995-2022 42.1
7 Kuanza Sul AGOr206 1995-2022 43.1
8 Luanda AGOr204 1995-2022 43.4
9 Cunene AGOr216 1995-2022 44.4
10 Kuando Kubango AGOr213 1995-2022 44.5
11 Bengo AGOr218 1995-2022 46.7
12 Huila AGOr215 1995-2022 47.3
13 Cabinda AGOr201 1995-2022 50.6
14 Malange AGOr207 1995-2022 50.9
15 Zaire AGOr202 1995-2022 51.5
16 Lunda Sul AGOr217 1995-2022 53.3
17 Moxico AGOr212 1995-2022 53.6
18 Uige AGOr203 1995-2022 53.8

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Per-country panel slice in CSV format. Columns: iso, country, gdl, region, year, sci. Direct dataset citations should reference the Figshare deposit (see How to cite).

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