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Country profile - KIR

Corruption in Kiribati

4 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 38.6 (2022).

Grand: 14.1 Petty: 63.7 Latest observed: 2017

Kiribati: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Kiribati is South Tarawa (37.1/100), and the least corrupt is Southern Gilbert (42/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 4 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Kiribati's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 38.6/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: South Tarawa (SCI 37.1/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Southern Gilbert (SCI 42/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 14.1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 63.7/100 (last directly observed in 2017).
  • Trend: Kiribati's SCI moved from 41/100 (1995) to 38.6/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 4 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Kiribati 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 Kiribati into 4 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 38.6 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 31 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 0.2 ≈ −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 4 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

42 34 1995 2022

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

Regions (4)

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 South Tarawa KIRr101 1995-2022 37.1
2 Northern Gilbert KIRr102 1995-2022 37.3
3 Central Gilbert KIRr103 1995-2022 38.4
4 Southern Gilbert KIRr104 1995-2022 42

Download Kiribati

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).

Download KIR.csv