Country profile - FRA

Corruption in France

27 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 76.7 (2022).

Grand: 70.3 Petty: 84.5 Latest observed: 2022

France: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of France is Martinique (64.8/100), and the least corrupt is Centre (81.9/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 27 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, France's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 76.7/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Martinique (SCI 64.8/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Centre (SCI 81.9/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 70.3/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 84.5/100 (last directly observed in 2022).
  • Trend: France's SCI moved from 65.8/100 (1995) to 76.7/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 27 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How France 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 France into 27 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 76.7 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 72 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 1.3 ≈ −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 27 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

78 64 1995 2022

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

Regions (27)

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 Martinique FRAr126 1995-2022 64.8
2 Reunion FRAr128 1995-2022 65.1
3 Corse FRAr122 1995-2022 65.3
4 Guadeloupe FRAr125 1995-2022 65.3
5 Mayotte FRAr129 1995-2022 65.5
6 French Guyana FRAr127 1995-2022 65.7
7 Picardie FRAr103 1995-2022 76.8
8 Franche-Comte FRAr111 1995-2022 77.4
9 Limousin FRAr117 1995-2022 78.6
10 Nord FRAr108 1995-2022 78.8
11 Provence-Alpes-Cote dAzur FRAr121 1995-2022 79
12 Bourgogne FRAr107 1995-2022 79.1
13 Lorraine FRAr109 1995-2022 79.2
14 Auvergne FRAr119 1995-2022 79.3
15 Alsace FRAr110 1995-2022 79.4
16 Haute-Normandie FRAr104 1995-2022 79.8
17 Rhone-Alpes FRAr118 1995-2022 80
18 Champagne-Ardenne FRAr102 1995-2022 80.1
19 Midi-Pyrenees FRAr116 1995-2022 80.1
20 Aquitaine FRAr115 1995-2022 80.3
21 Languedoc-Roussillon FRAr120 1995-2022 80.8
22 Ile de France FRAr101 1995-2022 80.9
23 Basse-Normandie FRAr106 1995-2022 81.1
24 Pays de la Loire FRAr112 1995-2022 81.1
25 Bretagne FRAr113 1995-2022 81.4
26 Poitou-Charentes FRAr114 1995-2022 81.4
27 Centre FRAr105 1995-2022 81.9

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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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