Country profile - ITA

Corruption in Italy

17 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 70.2 (2022).

Grand: 46.1 Petty: 87 Latest observed: 2022

Italy: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Italy is Veneto (65.9/100), and the least corrupt is Liguria (76.4/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 17 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Italy's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 70.2/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Veneto (SCI 65.9/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Liguria (SCI 76.4/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 46.1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 87/100 (last directly observed in 2022).
  • Trend: Italy's SCI moved from 69.1/100 (1995) to 70.2/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 17 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Italy 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 Italy into 17 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 70.2 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 56 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 0.5 ≈ −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 17 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

81 66 1995 2022

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

Regions (17)

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 Veneto ITAr205 1995-2022 65.9
2 Lazio ITAr211 1995-2022 66.6
3 Piemonte & Valle d'Aosta ITAr201 1995-2022 66.9
4 Calabria ITAr215 1995-2022 67.3
5 Campania ITAr213 1995-2022 67.3
6 Toscana ITAr208 1995-2022 67.4
7 Basilicata & Puglia ITAr214 1995-2022 68.1
8 Friuli-Venezia Giulia ITAr206 1995-2022 69
9 Abruzzo & Molise ITAr212 1995-2022 69.6
10 Umbria ITAr210 1995-2022 71.4
11 Bolzano & Trento ITAr204 1995-2022 72.1
12 Marche ITAr209 1995-2022 72.4
13 Emilia-Romagna ITAr207 1995-2022 72.6
14 Sicilia ITAr216 1995-2022 72.8
15 Sardegna ITAr217 1995-2022 73.4
16 Lombardia ITAr203 1995-2022 75.1
17 Liguria ITAr202 1995-2022 76.4

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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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