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Country profile - JOR

Corruption in Jordan

12 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 56.6 (2022).

Grand: 36.9 Petty: - Latest observed: 2021

Jordan: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Jordan is Mafraq (54/100), and the least corrupt is Madaba (61.8/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 12 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Jordan's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 56.6/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Mafraq (SCI 54/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Madaba (SCI 61.8/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 36.9/100; petty corruption (SPCI): /100 (last directly observed in 2021).
  • Trend: Jordan's SCI moved from 62.4/100 (1995) to 56.6/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 12 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Jordan 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 Jordan into 12 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 56.6 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 47 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 0.1 ≈ −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 12 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

67 55 1995 2022

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

Regions (12)

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 Mafraq JORr106 1995-2022 54
2 Jarash JORr107 1995-2022 54.5
3 Aljoun JORr108 1995-2022 54.6
4 Tafiela JORr110 1995-2022 55
5 Amman JORr101 1995-2022 55.9
6 Balqa JORr102 1995-2022 56.2
7 Aqaba JORr112 1995-2022 56.3
8 Irbid JORr105 1995-2022 56.6
9 Zarqa JORr103 1995-2022 57.5
10 Karak JORr109 1995-2022 58.4
11 Maan JORr111 1995-2022 58.7
12 Madaba JORr104 1995-2022 61.8

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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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