Which region of Austria is the most corrupt?

According to the Subnational Corruption Database, the most corrupt region of Austria is Tirol, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 79.3/100 (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt) in 2022.

Which region of Austria is the least corrupt?

The least corrupt region of Austria is Steiermark, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 84/100 in 2022.

How corrupt is Austria?

In 2022, Austria had a national Subnational Corruption Index of 81.9/100 (higher = cleaner), with grand corruption (SGCI) at 72.4/100 and petty corruption (SPCI) at 87.4/100 (last directly observed in 2022). The Subnational Corruption Database covers 9 regions of Austria from 1995 to 2022.

Country profile - AUT

Corruption in Austria

9 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 81.9 (2022).

Grand: 72.4 Petty: 87.4 Latest observed: 2022

Austria: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Austria is Tirol (79.3/100), and the least corrupt is Steiermark (84/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 9 regions are ranked below.

In 2022, Austria's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 81.9/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
Most corrupt region: Tirol (SCI 79.3/100, 2022).
Least corrupt region: Steiermark (SCI 84/100, 2022).
Grand corruption (SGCI): 72.4/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 87.4/100 (last directly observed in 2022).
Trend: Austria's SCI moved from 73.4/100 (1995) to 81.9/100 (2022).
Coverage: 9 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Austria 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 Austria into 9 regions.

Index	Latest	Scale	Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI)	81.9	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI	71	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption	1.3	≈ −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 9 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

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

Regions (9)

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	Tirol	AUTr108	1995-2022	79.3
2	Oberosterreich	AUTr106	1995-2022	79.9
3	Salzburg	AUTr107	1995-2022	79.9
4	Wien	AUTr103	1995-2022	81.3
5	Karnten	AUTr104	1995-2022	82.1
6	Burgenland	AUTr101	1995-2022	83.4
7	Vorarlberg	AUTr109	1995-2022	83.7
8	Niederosterreich	AUTr102	1995-2022	83.9
9	Steiermark	AUTr105	1995-2022	84

Download Austria

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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