Country profile - COD

Corruption in Congo Democratic Republic

11 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 24.3 (2022).

Grand: 1 Petty: 28.9 Latest observed: 2017

Congo Democratic Republic: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Congo Democratic Republic is Bandundu (13.9/100), and the least corrupt is Equateur (32.1/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 11 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Congo Democratic Republic's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 24.3/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Bandundu (SCI 13.9/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Equateur (SCI 32.1/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 28.9/100 (last directly observed in 2017).
  • Trend: Congo Democratic Republic's SCI moved from 23.1/100 (1995) to 24.3/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 11 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Congo Democratic Republic 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 Congo Democratic Republic into 11 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 24.3 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 20 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -1.5 ≈ −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 11 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

28 22 1995 2022

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

Regions (11)

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 Bandundu CODr103 1995-2022 13.9
2 Kasai Occidental CODr111 1995-2022 15.6
3 Sud-Kivu CODr107 1995-2022 19
4 Kasai Oriental CODr110 1995-2022 21.7
5 Nord-Kivu CODr106 1995-2022 21.7
6 Katanga CODr109 1995-2022 26.2
7 Bas-Congo CODr102 1995-2022 26.6
8 Orientale CODr105 1995-2022 29.2
9 Maniema CODr108 1995-2022 29.7
10 Kinshasa CODr101 1995-2022 31.6
11 Equateur CODr104 1995-2022 32.1

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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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