Country profile - DOM

Corruption in Dominican Republic

9 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 62.1 (2022).

Grand: 31.3 Petty: 76.7 Latest observed: 2019

Dominican Republic: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Dominican Republic is Region VI (San Juan, Elias Pina) (58/100), and the least corrupt is Region VII (Dajabon, Monte Cristi, Santiago Rodriguez, Valverde) (67.1/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 9 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Dominican Republic's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 62.1/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Region VI (San Juan, Elias Pina) (SCI 58/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Region VII (Dajabon, Monte Cristi, Santiago Rodriguez, Valverde) (SCI 67.1/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 31.3/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 76.7/100 (last directly observed in 2019).
  • Trend: Dominican Republic's SCI moved from 58.1/100 (1995) to 62.1/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 9 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Dominican 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 Dominican Republic into 9 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 62.1 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 32 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -0.4 ≈ −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 9 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

63 53 1995 2022

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

Regions (9)

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 Region VI (San Juan, Elias Pina) DOMr107 1995-2022 58
2 Region VIII (La Vega, Monsenor Nouel, Sanchez Ramirez) DOMr109 1995-2022 60.1
3 Region 0 (Distrito Nacional, Santo Domingo, Monte Plata) DOMr101 1995-2022 60.3
4 Region I (Peravia, San Cristobal, San Jose de Ocoa, Azua) DOMr102 1995-2022 61.5
5 Region III (Duarte, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Salcedo, Samana) DOMr104 1995-2022 61.6
6 Region V (El Seibo, La Altagracia, La Romana, San Pedro de Macoris, Hato Mayor) DOMr106 1995-2022 61.7
7 Region II (Espaillat, Puerto Plata, Santiago) DOMr103 1995-2022 62.2
8 Region IV (Independencia, Bahoruco, Barahona, Pedernales) DOMr105 1995-2022 66.9
9 Region VII (Dajabon, Monte Cristi, Santiago Rodriguez, Valverde) DOMr108 1995-2022 67.1

Download Dominican Republic

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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