Country profile - TZA

Corruption in Tanzania

25 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 74 (2022).

Grand: 72.2 Petty: 56.7 Latest observed: 2021

Tanzania: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Tanzania is Pemba South (64.9/100), and the least corrupt is Lindi (79.5/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 25 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Tanzania's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 74/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Pemba South (SCI 64.9/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Lindi (SCI 79.5/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 72.2/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 56.7/100 (last directly observed in 2021).
  • Trend: Tanzania's SCI moved from 65.1/100 (1995) to 74/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 25 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Tanzania 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 Tanzania into 25 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 74 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 38 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 25 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

75 62 1995 2022

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

Regions (25)

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 Pemba South TZAr225 1995-2022 64.9
2 Zanzibar West TZAr223 1995-2022 66.8
3 Zanzibar South TZAr222 1995-2022 67.2
4 Zanzibar North TZAr221 1995-2022 68
5 Pemba North TZAr224 1995-2022 68.3
6 Dar Es Salam TZAr207 1995-2022 69.4
7 Rukwa, Katavi TZAr215 1995-2022 70.1
8 Arusha, Manyara TZAr202 1995-2022 72.7
9 Mara TZAr220 1995-2022 73
10 Shinyanga, Simiyu TZAr217 1995-2022 74
11 Kilimanjaro TZAr203 1995-2022 74.9
12 Tanga TZAr204 1995-2022 75.1
13 Dodoma TZAr201 1995-2022 75.2
14 Kigoma TZAr216 1995-2022 75.7
15 Pwani TZAr206 1995-2022 76
16 Mbeya TZAr212 1995-2022 76.1
17 Mwanza, Geita TZAr219 1995-2022 76.5
18 Mtwara TZAr209 1995-2022 76.8
19 Morogoro TZAr205 1995-2022 77.2
20 Iringa, Njombe TZAr211 1995-2022 77.7
21 Ruvuma TZAr210 1995-2022 77.7
22 Singida TZAr213 1995-2022 77.9
23 Kagera TZAr218 1995-2022 78.3
24 Tabora TZAr214 1995-2022 79.2
25 Lindi TZAr208 1995-2022 79.5

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