Which region of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the least corrupt?

The least corrupt region of Bosnia and Herzegovina is Bosnia & Herzegovina Region, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 41.4/100 in 2022.

How corrupt is Bosnia and Herzegovina?

In 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina had a national Subnational Corruption Index of 40.9/100 (higher = cleaner), with grand corruption (SGCI) at 38.4/100 and petty corruption (SPCI) at 42.8/100 (last directly observed in 2019). The Subnational Corruption Database covers 2 regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1995 to 2022.

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Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Q: Which region of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the most corrupt?

According to the Subnational Corruption Database, the most corrupt region of Bosnia and Herzegovina is Republic of Serbia & Brcko District, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 40.2/100 (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt) in 2022.

2 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 40.9 (2022).

Grand: 38.4 Petty: 42.8 Latest observed: 2019

Bosnia and Herzegovina: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Bosnia and Herzegovina is Republic of Serbia & Brcko District (40.2/100), and the least corrupt is Bosnia & Herzegovina Region (41.4/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 2 regions are ranked below.

In 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 40.9/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
Most corrupt region: Republic of Serbia & Brcko District (SCI 40.2/100, 2022).
Least corrupt region: Bosnia & Herzegovina Region (SCI 41.4/100, 2022).
Grand corruption (SGCI): 38.4/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 42.8/100 (last directly observed in 2019).
Trend: Bosnia and Herzegovina's SCI moved from 48.3/100 (1995) to 40.9/100 (2022).
Coverage: 2 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina into 2 regions.

Index	Latest	Scale	Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI)	40.9	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI	34	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption	-0.7	≈ −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 2 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 (2)

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	Republic of Serbia & Brcko District	BIHr302	1995-2022	40.2
2	Bosnia & Herzegovina Region	BIHr301	1995-2022	41.4

Download Bosnia and Herzegovina

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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