Which region of Myanmar is the most corrupt?

According to the Subnational Corruption Database, the most corrupt region of Myanmar is Kayin, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 50.9/100 (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt) in 2022.

Which region of Myanmar is the least corrupt?

The least corrupt region of Myanmar is Shan, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 65.3/100 in 2022.

How corrupt is Myanmar?

In 2022, Myanmar had a national Subnational Corruption Index of 59.1/100 (higher = cleaner), with grand corruption (SGCI) at 47.3/100 and petty corruption (SPCI) at 64.4/100 (last directly observed in 2020). The Subnational Corruption Database covers 10 regions of Myanmar from 1995 to 2022.

Country profile - MMR

Corruption in Myanmar

10 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 59.1 (2022).

Grand: 47.3 Petty: 64.4 Latest observed: 2020

Myanmar: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Myanmar is Kayin (50.9/100), and the least corrupt is Shan (65.3/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 10 regions are ranked below.

In 2022, Myanmar's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 59.1/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
Most corrupt region: Kayin (SCI 50.9/100, 2022).
Least corrupt region: Shan (SCI 65.3/100, 2022).
Grand corruption (SGCI): 47.3/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 64.4/100 (last directly observed in 2020).
Trend: Myanmar's SCI moved from 55.2/100 (1995) to 59.1/100 (2022).
Coverage: 10 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Myanmar 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 Myanmar into 10 regions.

Index	Latest	Scale	Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI)	59.1	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI	23	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption	-1.2	≈ −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 10 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

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	Kayin	MMRr103	1995-2022	50.9
2	Sagaing	MMRr105	1995-2022	56.5
3	Yangon	MMRr112	1995-2022	57.1
4	Taninthayi	MMRr106	1995-2022	57.6
5	Magway	MMRr108	1995-2022	58
6	Bago	MMRr107	1995-2022	59.8
7	Mon	MMRr110	1995-2022	60.7
8	Mandalay, NayPyitaw	MMRr109	1995-2022	61.2
9	Ayeyarwaddy	MMRr114	1995-2022	62.8
10	Shan	MMRr113	1995-2022	65.3

Download Myanmar

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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