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Country profile - POL

Corruption in Poland

16 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 75.7 (2022).

Grand: 61.4 Petty: 83.2 Latest observed: 2022

Poland: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Poland is Malopolskie (72.3/100), and the least corrupt is Opolskie (79.3/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 16 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Poland's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 75.7/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Malopolskie (SCI 72.3/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Opolskie (SCI 79.3/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 61.4/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 83.2/100 (last directly observed in 2022).
  • Trend: Poland's SCI moved from 65.9/100 (1995) to 75.7/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 16 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Poland 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 Poland into 16 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 75.7 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 55 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 0.5 ≈ −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 16 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

77 60 1995 2022

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

Regions (16)

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 Malopolskie POLr103 1995-2022 72.3
2 Podlaskie POLr108 1995-2022 74
3 Dolnoslaskie POLr112 1995-2022 74.2
4 Lodzkie POLr101 1995-2022 74.4
5 Mazowieckie POLr102 1995-2022 74.8
6 Warminsko-Mazurskie POLr115 1995-2022 74.8
7 Slaskie POLr104 1995-2022 75.4
8 Pomorskie POLr116 1995-2022 75.7
9 Wielkopolskie POLr109 1995-2022 75.9
10 Zachodniopomorskie POLr110 1995-2022 75.9
11 Lubuskie POLr111 1995-2022 76.2
12 Podkarpackie POLr106 1995-2022 76.3
13 Swietokrzyskie POLr107 1995-2022 76.6
14 Lubelskie POLr105 1995-2022 77.3
15 Kujawsko-Pomorskie POLr114 1995-2022 77.7
16 Opolskie POLr113 1995-2022 79.3

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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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