Country profile - EGY

Corruption in Egypt

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

Grand: 39.1 Petty: 69.8 Latest observed: 2018

Egypt: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Egypt is Menoufia (48.2/100), and the least corrupt is Aswan (63.9/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 22 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Egypt'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: Menoufia (SCI 48.2/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Aswan (SCI 63.9/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 39.1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 69.8/100 (last directly observed in 2018).
  • Trend: Egypt's SCI moved from 57.5/100 (1995) to 56.1/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 22 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Egypt 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 Egypt into 22 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 56.1 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 30 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 22 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

59 49 1995 2022

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

Regions (22)

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 Menoufia EGYr111 1995-2022 48.2
2 Beni Suef EGYr115 1995-2022 49.4
3 Suez EGYr104 1995-2022 49.9
4 Gharbia EGYr110 1995-2022 52.8
5 Giza EGYr114 1995-2022 53.2
6 Frontier governorates (Red Sea, New Valley, Matroh, North Sainai, South Sainai) EGYr122 1995-2022 53.4
7 Ismailia EGYr113 1995-2022 54.8
8 Dakahlia EGYr106 1995-2022 55
9 Kalyubia EGYr108 1995-2022 55.5
10 Behera EGYr112 1995-2022 55.8
11 Cairo EGYr101 1995-2022 56.3
12 Alexandria EGYr102 1995-2022 56.5
13 Damietta EGYr105 1995-2022 57.2
14 Menya EGYr117 1995-2022 57.2
15 Souhag EGYr119 1995-2022 57.3
16 Kafr El-Sheikh EGYr109 1995-2022 57.8
17 Qena, Luxor EGYr120 1995-2022 57.9
18 Assuit EGYr118 1995-2022 58.3
19 Port Said EGYr103 1995-2022 59.7
20 Sharkia EGYr107 1995-2022 60.8
21 Fayoum EGYr116 1995-2022 62.2
22 Aswan EGYr121 1995-2022 63.9

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