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Country profile - MOZ

Corruption in Mozambique

11 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 51.9 (2022).

Grand: 44.9 Petty: 47.1 Latest observed: 2021

Mozambique: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Mozambique is Cabo delgado (43.9/100), and the least corrupt is Tete (59/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 11 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Mozambique's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 51.9/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Cabo delgado (SCI 43.9/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Tete (SCI 59/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 44.9/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 47.1/100 (last directly observed in 2021).
  • Trend: Mozambique's SCI moved from 48.4/100 (1995) to 51.9/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 11 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Mozambique 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 Mozambique into 11 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 51.9 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 26 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -0.8 ≈ −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 11 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

53 43 1995 2022

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

Regions (11)

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 Cabo delgado MOZr102 1995-2022 43.9
2 Nampula MOZr103 1995-2022 45.8
3 Zambezia MOZr104 1995-2022 48.6
4 Maputo Cidade MOZr111 1995-2022 49.9
5 Maputo Provincia MOZr110 1995-2022 51.2
6 Gaza MOZr109 1995-2022 52.6
7 Manica MOZr106 1995-2022 52.8
8 Sofala MOZr107 1995-2022 52.8
9 Niassa MOZr101 1995-2022 56.8
10 Inhambane MOZr108 1995-2022 58.1
11 Tete MOZr105 1995-2022 59

Download Mozambique

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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