Country profile - VEN

Corruption in Venezuela

8 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 35.9 (2022).

Grand: 33.6 Petty: - Latest observed: 2001

Venezuela: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Venezuela is Centro Occidental (31.3/100), and the least corrupt is Distrito Capital (37.8/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 8 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Venezuela's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 35.9/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Centro Occidental (SCI 31.3/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Distrito Capital (SCI 37.8/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 33.6/100; petty corruption (SPCI): /100 (last directly observed in 2001).
  • Trend: Venezuela's SCI moved from 45.2/100 (1995) to 35.9/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 8 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Venezuela 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 Venezuela into 8 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 35.9 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 14 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -1.7 ≈ −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 8 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

48 35 1995 2022

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

Regions (8)

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 Centro Occidental VENr302 1995-2022 31.3
2 Guayana VENr304 1995-2022 35.2
3 Zuliana VENr309 1995-2022 35.3
4 Central VENr301 1995-2022 35.6
5 Oriental VENr308 1995-2022 36.8
6 Los Andes VENr306 1995-2022 37.5
7 Los Llanos VENr307 1995-2022 37.7
8 Distrito Capital VENr303 1995-2022 37.8

Download Venezuela

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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