Countries With the Lowest Political Corruption

Every country with a figure for political corruption, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Denmark (0.004), Sweden (0.009) and Norway (0.01). The middle country of the 175 has 0.507.

What this measures

Political corruption index, in index (0-1). Source: V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg. For this measure, higher is worse.

Expert ratings of corruption across the government, parliament, courts and public sector. It runs the opposite way to the Corruption Perceptions Index, where higher means cleaner. So the two should move strongly in opposite directions. V-Dem is also one of the datasets Transparency International combines into that index.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2025–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on political corruption

• Countries With the Highest Political Corruption
• Political corruption by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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• Countries With the Lowest Corruption Perceptions Index
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• Countries With the Lowest Liberal Democracy

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.