Country profile - CZE

Corruption in Czech Republic

8 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 70 (2022).

Grand: 48.7 Petty: 84.5 Latest observed: 2022

Czech Republic: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Czech Republic is Stredni Cechy (66.6/100), and the least corrupt is Severovychod (72.1/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 8 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Czech Republic's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 70/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Stredni Cechy (SCI 66.6/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Severovychod (SCI 72.1/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 48.7/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 84.5/100 (last directly observed in 2022).
  • Trend: Czech Republic's SCI moved from 61.6/100 (1995) to 70/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 8 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Czech 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 Czech Republic into 8 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 70 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 56 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 0.7 ≈ −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 8 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

74 56 1995 2022

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

Regions (8)

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 Stredni Cechy CZEr102 1995-2022 66.6
2 Jihovychod CZEr106 1995-2022 68.3
3 Praha CZEr101 1995-2022 69.3
4 Jihozapad CZEr103 1995-2022 69.4
5 Moravskoslezsko CZEr108 1995-2022 71.5
6 Severozapad CZEr104 1995-2022 71.6
7 Stredni Morava CZEr107 1995-2022 71.6
8 Severovychod CZEr105 1995-2022 72.1

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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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