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Country profile - MKD

Corruption in North Macedonia

4 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 46.4 (2022).

Grand: 37.4 Petty: - Latest observed: 1998

North Macedonia: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of North Macedonia is Central North Macedonia (45.3/100), and the least corrupt is Western North Macedonia (48.9/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 4 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, North Macedonia's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 46.4/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Central North Macedonia (SCI 45.3/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Western North Macedonia (SCI 48.9/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 37.4/100; petty corruption (SPCI): /100 (last directly observed in 1998).
  • Trend: North Macedonia's SCI moved from 43.5/100 (1995) to 46.4/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 4 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How North Macedonia 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 North Macedonia into 4 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 46.4 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 40 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -0.3 ≈ −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).

50 40 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 Central North Macedonia MKDr204 1995-2022 45.3
2 Northern North Macedonia MKDr201 1995-2022 45.3
3 Southern North Macedonia MKDr202 1995-2022 46.3
4 Western North Macedonia MKDr203 1995-2022 48.9

Download North Macedonia

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 MKD.csv