Country profile - HND

Corruption in Honduras

18 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 55.4 (2022).

Grand: 37.2 Petty: 71.3 Latest observed: 2018

Honduras: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Honduras is Choluteca (50.6/100), and the least corrupt is El Paraiso (58.5/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 18 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Honduras's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 55.4/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Choluteca (SCI 50.6/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: El Paraiso (SCI 58.5/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 37.2/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 71.3/100 (last directly observed in 2018).
  • Trend: Honduras's SCI moved from 58.9/100 (1995) to 55.4/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 18 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Honduras 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 Honduras into 18 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 55.4 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 23 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -1 ≈ −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 18 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

62 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 (18)

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 Choluteca HNDr106 1995-2022 50.6
2 Ocotepeque HNDr114 1995-2022 52.4
3 Lempira HNDr113 1995-2022 52.5
4 Atlantida HNDr101 1995-2022 52.8
5 Francisco Morazan HNDr108 1995-2022 53.3
6 Cortes HNDr105 1995-2022 53.6
7 La Paz HNDr112 1995-2022 54.5
8 Copan HNDr104 1995-2022 54.8
9 Intibuca HNDr110 1995-2022 56.1
10 Valle HNDr117 1995-2022 56.2
11 Comayagua HNDr103 1995-2022 56.6
12 Colon HNDr102 1995-2022 56.9
13 Yoro HNDr118 1995-2022 57
14 Olancho HNDr115 1995-2022 57.3
15 Gracias a Dios HNDr109 1995-2022 57.6
16 Santa Barbara HNDr116 1995-2022 58
17 Islas de la Bahia HNDr111 1995-2022 58.3
18 El Paraiso HNDr107 1995-2022 58.5

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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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