Country profile - CAN

Corruption in Canada

10 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 69 (2022).

Grand: 45.6 Petty: - Latest observed: 2008

Canada: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Canada is Newfoundland and Labrador (63.2/100), and the least corrupt is British Columbia (73.4/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 10 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Canada's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 69/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Newfoundland and Labrador (SCI 63.2/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: British Columbia (SCI 73.4/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 45.6/100; petty corruption (SPCI): /100 (last directly observed in 2008).
  • Trend: Canada's SCI moved from 73.4/100 (1995) to 69/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 10 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Canada 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 Canada into 10 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 69 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 74 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 1.7 ≈ −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 10 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

75 67 1995 2022

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

Regions (10)

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 Newfoundland and Labrador CANr101 1995-2022 63.2
2 Saskatchewan CANr108 1995-2022 64.1
3 New Brunswick CANr104 1995-2022 66.7
4 Quebec CANr105 1995-2022 68.7
5 Manitoba CANr107 1995-2022 69.1
6 Ontario CANr106 1995-2022 69.7
7 Alberta CANr109 1995-2022 70.3
8 Prince Edward Island, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut CANr102 1995-2022 72.2
9 Nova Scotia CANr103 1995-2022 72.3
10 British Columbia CANr110 1995-2022 73.4

Download Canada

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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