Country profile - LTU

Corruption in Lithuania

10 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 73 (2022).

Grand: 55.8 Petty: 88.1 Latest observed: 2022

Lithuania: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Lithuania is Klaipeda County (70.7/100), and the least corrupt is Utena County (77.2/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 10 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Lithuania's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 73/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Klaipeda County (SCI 70.7/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Utena County (SCI 77.2/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 55.8/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 88.1/100 (last directly observed in 2022).
  • Trend: Lithuania's SCI moved from 63.7/100 (1995) to 73/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 10 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Lithuania 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 Lithuania into 10 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 73 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 62 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 0.7 ≈ −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 10 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

74 60 1995 2022

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

Regions (10)

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 Klaipeda County LTUr103 1995-2022 70.7
2 LT008 - Telsiu apskritis LTUr108 1995-2022 70.7
3 Taurage County LTUr107 1995-2022 71.9
4 Alytus County LTUr101 1995-2022 72.4
5 Marijampole County LTUr104 1995-2022 72.9
6 Siauliai County LTUr106 1995-2022 73.3
7 Vilnius County LTUr110 1995-2022 73.4
8 Kaunas County LTUr102 1995-2022 73.9
9 Panevezys County LTUr105 1995-2022 73.9
10 Utena County LTUr109 1995-2022 77.2

Download Lithuania

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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