Country profile - CHL

Corruption in Chile

13 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 56.1 (2022).

Grand: 32.8 Petty: 60.8 Latest observed: 2018

Chile: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Chile is Atacama (46.9/100), and the least corrupt is Magallanes and La Antartica Chilena (66.5/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 13 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Chile's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 56.1/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Atacama (SCI 46.9/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Magallanes and La Antartica Chilena (SCI 66.5/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 32.8/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 60.8/100 (last directly observed in 2018).
  • Trend: Chile's SCI moved from 63.8/100 (1995) to 56.1/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 13 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Chile 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 Chile into 13 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 56.1 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 67 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 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).

65 54 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 Atacama CHLr103 1995-2022 46.9
2 Maule CHLr107 1995-2022 51
3 Antofagasta CHLr102 1995-2022 51.5
4 Bio Bio CHLr108 1995-2022 52.9
5 OHiggins CHLr106 1995-2022 53
6 Region Metropolitana CHLr113 1995-2022 55.3
7 Coquimbo CHLr104 1995-2022 55.9
8 Tarapaca (incl Arica and Parinacota) CHLr101 1995-2022 56.7
9 Arbucania CHLr109 1995-2022 57.3
10 Valparaiso (former Aconcagua) CHLr105 1995-2022 57.7
11 Los Lagos (incl Los Rios) CHLr110 1995-2022 61
12 Aisen CHLr111 1995-2022 64.8
13 Magallanes and La Antartica Chilena CHLr112 1995-2022 66.5

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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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