Which region of Bolivia is the most corrupt?

According to the Subnational Corruption Database, the most corrupt region of Bolivia is Tarija, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 44.2/100 (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt) in 2022.

Which region of Bolivia is the least corrupt?

The least corrupt region of Bolivia is Beni, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 51.3/100 in 2022.

How corrupt is Bolivia?

In 2022, Bolivia had a national Subnational Corruption Index of 47.7/100 (higher = cleaner), with grand corruption (SGCI) at 27.3/100 and petty corruption (SPCI) at null/100 (last directly observed in 2018). The Subnational Corruption Database covers 9 regions of Bolivia from 1995 to 2022.

Country profile - BOL

Corruption in Bolivia

9 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 47.7 (2022).

Grand: 27.3 Petty: - Latest observed: 2018

Bolivia: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Bolivia is Tarija (44.2/100), and the least corrupt is Beni (51.3/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 9 regions are ranked below.

In 2022, Bolivia's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 47.7/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
Most corrupt region: Tarija (SCI 44.2/100, 2022).
Least corrupt region: Beni (SCI 51.3/100, 2022).
Grand corruption (SGCI): 27.3/100; petty corruption (SPCI): /100 (last directly observed in 2018).
Trend: Bolivia's SCI moved from 53.2/100 (1995) to 47.7/100 (2022).
Coverage: 9 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Bolivia 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 Bolivia into 9 regions.

Index	Latest	Scale	Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI)	47.7	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI	31	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption	-0.9	≈ −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	Tarija	BOLr106	1995-2022	44.2
2	Chuquisaca	BOLr101	1995-2022	44.7
3	Santa Cruz	BOLr107	1995-2022	46.3
4	Potosi	BOLr105	1995-2022	47.5
5	La Paz	BOLr102	1995-2022	47.7
6	Pando	BOLr109	1995-2022	48.6
7	Oruro	BOLr104	1995-2022	49.4
8	Cochabamba	BOLr103	1995-2022	49.5
9	Beni	BOLr108	1995-2022	51.3

Download Bolivia

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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