Country profile - LVA

Corruption in Latvia

6 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 75.2 (2022).

Grand: 62.1 Petty: 84.7 Latest observed: 2022

Latvia: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Latvia is Pieriga region (73.4/100), and the least corrupt is Kurzeme region (77.5/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 6 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Latvia's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 75.2/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Pieriga region (SCI 73.4/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Kurzeme region (SCI 77.5/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 62.1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 84.7/100 (last directly observed in 2022).
  • Trend: Latvia's SCI moved from 64/100 (1995) to 75.2/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 6 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Latvia 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 Latvia into 6 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 75.2 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 59 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 6 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

76 59 1995 2022

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

Regions (6)

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 Pieriga region LVAr102 1995-2022 73.4
2 Riga region LVAr101 1995-2022 74
3 Zemgale region LVAr105 1995-2022 74.5
4 Vidzeme region LVAr103 1995-2022 76
5 Latgale region LVAr106 1995-2022 76.2
6 Kurzeme region LVAr104 1995-2022 77.5

Download Latvia

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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