Country profile - MDG

Corruption in Madagascar

22 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 54.6 (2022).

Grand: 48.1 Petty: 49.6 Latest observed: 2018

Madagascar: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Madagascar is Diana (47.6/100), and the least corrupt is Itasy (60.9/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 22 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Madagascar's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 54.6/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Diana (SCI 47.6/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Itasy (SCI 60.9/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 48.1/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 49.6/100 (last directly observed in 2018).
  • Trend: Madagascar's SCI moved from 69.1/100 (1995) to 54.6/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 22 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Madagascar 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 Madagascar into 22 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 54.6 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 26 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -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 22 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

74 53 1995 2022

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

Regions (22)

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 Diana MDGr121 1995-2022 47.6
2 Ihorombe MDGr108 1995-2022 48.9
3 Anamoroni Mania MDGr106 1995-2022 49.2
4 Analanjirofo MDGr111 1995-2022 49.7
5 Atsimo Atsinanana MDGr109 1995-2022 50.6
6 Boeny MDGr113 1995-2022 51
7 Analamanga MDGr101 1995-2022 51.4
8 Sava MDGr122 1995-2022 52.2
9 Melaky MDGr116 1995-2022 52.6
10 Vatovavy Fitovinany MDGr107 1995-2022 53
11 Betsiboka MDGr115 1995-2022 53.4
12 Menabe MDGr120 1995-2022 53.6
13 Atsimo Andrefana MDGr117 1995-2022 55
14 Sofia MDGr114 1995-2022 57.3
15 Androy MDGr118 1995-2022 57.4
16 Anosy MDGr119 1995-2022 58.4
17 Alaotra Mangoro MDGr112 1995-2022 59
18 Haute Matsiatra MDGr105 1995-2022 59
19 Atsinanana MDGr110 1995-2022 59.7
20 Vakinankaratra MDGr102 1995-2022 60.3
21 Bongolava MDGr104 1995-2022 60.7
22 Itasy MDGr103 1995-2022 60.9

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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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