Which region of Ethiopia is the most corrupt?

According to the Subnational Corruption Database, the most corrupt region of Ethiopia is Harari, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 44.6/100 (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt) in 2022.

Which region of Ethiopia is the least corrupt?

The least corrupt region of Ethiopia is Tigray, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 59.1/100 in 2022.

How corrupt is Ethiopia?

In 2022, Ethiopia had a national Subnational Corruption Index of 51.6/100 (higher = cleaner), with grand corruption (SGCI) at 35.1/100 and petty corruption (SPCI) at 55/100 (last directly observed in 2020). The Subnational Corruption Database covers 11 regions of Ethiopia from 1995 to 2022.

Country profile - ETH

Corruption in Ethiopia

11 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 51.6 (2022).

Grand: 35.1 Petty: 55 Latest observed: 2020

Ethiopia: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Ethiopia is Harari (44.6/100), and the least corrupt is Tigray (59.1/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 11 regions are ranked below.

In 2022, Ethiopia's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 51.6/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
Most corrupt region: Harari (SCI 44.6/100, 2022).
Least corrupt region: Tigray (SCI 59.1/100, 2022).
Grand corruption (SGCI): 35.1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 55/100 (last directly observed in 2020).
Trend: Ethiopia's SCI moved from 46.7/100 (1995) to 51.6/100 (2022).
Coverage: 11 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Ethiopia 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 Ethiopia into 11 regions.

Index	Latest	Scale	Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI)	51.6	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI	38	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 11 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

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	Harari	ETHr109	1995-2022	44.6
2	Somali	ETHr105	1995-2022	45
3	Gambela	ETHr108	1995-2022	48.2
4	Addis	ETHr110	1995-2022	49.8
5	Ben-Gumz	ETHr106	1995-2022	51.8
6	Dire Dawa	ETHr111	1995-2022	51.9
7	SNNP	ETHr107	1995-2022	51.9
8	Affar	ETHr102	1995-2022	52.4
9	Amhara	ETHr103	1995-2022	53.4
10	Oromiya	ETHr104	1995-2022	57
11	Tigray	ETHr101	1995-2022	59.1

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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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