Country profile - BFA

Corruption in Burkina Faso

13 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 64 (2022).

Grand: 45.6 Petty: 68 Latest observed: 2019

Burkina Faso: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Burkina Faso is Boucle de Mouhoun (58.1/100), and the least corrupt is Centre-Nord (70.3/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 13 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Burkina Faso's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 64/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Boucle de Mouhoun (SCI 58.1/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Centre-Nord (SCI 70.3/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 45.6/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 68/100 (last directly observed in 2019).
  • Trend: Burkina Faso's SCI moved from 67.4/100 (1995) to 64/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 13 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Burkina Faso 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 Burkina Faso into 13 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 64 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 42 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -0.1 ≈ −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 13 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

69 58 1995 2022

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

Regions (13)

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 Boucle de Mouhoun BFAr101 1995-2022 58.1
2 Sahel BFAr112 1995-2022 58.1
3 Centre-Ouest BFAr106 1995-2022 60.4
4 Est BFAr108 1995-2022 60.8
5 Centre (incl Ouagadougou) BFAr103 1995-2022 63.6
6 Centre-Sud BFAr107 1995-2022 64.1
7 Sud-Ouest BFAr113 1995-2022 64.2
8 Centre-Est BFAr104 1995-2022 64.4
9 Hauts Bassins BFAr109 1995-2022 65.6
10 Nord BFAr110 1995-2022 66.9
11 Plateau Central BFAr111 1995-2022 67.5
12 Cascades BFAr102 1995-2022 68.3
13 Centre-Nord BFAr105 1995-2022 70.3

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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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