Country profile - CIV

Corruption in Côte d'Ivoire

10 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 49.8 (2022).

Grand: 35.1 Petty: 49.3 Latest observed: 2019

Côte d'Ivoire: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Côte d'Ivoire is Nord Est (43.5/100), and the least corrupt is Centre Nord (57.9/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 10 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Côte d'Ivoire's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 49.8/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Nord Est (SCI 43.5/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Centre Nord (SCI 57.9/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 35.1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 49.3/100 (last directly observed in 2019).
  • Trend: Côte d'Ivoire's SCI moved from 46.2/100 (1995) to 49.8/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 10 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Côte d'Ivoire 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 Côte d'Ivoire into 10 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 49.8 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 37 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -0.3 ≈ −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).

51 35 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 Nord Est CIVr106 1995-2022 43.5
2 Sud Ouest CIVr110 1995-2022 44.3
3 Ouest CIVr108 1995-2022 44.9
4 Centre CIVr101 1995-2022 47.5
5 Centre Ouest CIVr104 1995-2022 47.8
6 Centre Est CIVr102 1995-2022 50.7
7 Nord Ouest CIVr107 1995-2022 52
8 Sud, Abidjan CIVr109 1995-2022 52.2
9 Nord CIVr105 1995-2022 56.7
10 Centre Nord CIVr103 1995-2022 57.9

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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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