Country profile - FJI

Corruption in Fiji

10 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 61 (2022).

Grand: 50.4 Petty: 71.5 Latest observed: 2017

Fiji: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Fiji is Rewa (56.7/100), and the least corrupt is Ba (65.6/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 10 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Fiji's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 61/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Rewa (SCI 56.7/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Ba (SCI 65.6/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 50.4/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 71.5/100 (last directly observed in 2017).
  • Trend: Fiji's SCI moved from 63.3/100 (1995) to 61/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 10 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Fiji 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 Fiji into 10 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 61 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 53 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 10 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

65 54 1995 2022

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

Regions (10)

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 Rewa FJIr102 1995-2022 56.7
2 Tailevu FJIr104 1995-2022 57.2
3 Nadroga or Navosa FJIr109 1995-2022 57.3
4 Kadavu, Lau, Lomaiviti, Rotuma FJIr105 1995-2022 58.8
5 Ra FJIr110 1995-2022 61.6
6 Serua, Namosi FJIr103 1995-2022 61.8
7 Cakaudrove, Bua FJIr106 1995-2022 62.1
8 Naitasiri FJIr101 1995-2022 62.1
9 Macuata FJIr107 1995-2022 65.5
10 Ba FJIr108 1995-2022 65.6

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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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