Countries Where Bribery Is Legal 2024

Bribery is illegal by nature. As such, there exist no countries in which bribery is official legalized.
Despite being fundamentally illegal, bribery is still notably present in the world. Bribery is both obvious and prevalent in some countries, and likely exists at some level even in countries where it is not immediately apparent..
Although there are no major statistical studies devoted solely to bribery, Transparency.org's annual Corruption Perceptions Index tracks overall corruption, of which bribery is a large and common component.
Lower CPI scores indicate higher corruption, and likely more instances of bribery.

179 countries

Country	Corruption Perceptions Index 2023	CPI 2022	CPI 2021	CPI 2020
Denmark	90	90	88	88
Finland	87	87	88	85
New Zealand	85	87	88	88
Norway	84	84	85	84
Singapore	83	83	85	85
Sweden	82	83	85	85
Switzerland	82	82	84	85
Netherlands	79	80	82	82
Germany	78	79	80	80
Luxembourg	78	77	81	80
Ireland	77	77	74	72
Canada	76	74	74	77
Estonia	76	74	74	75
Australia	75	75	73	77
Hong Kong	75	76	76	77
Japan	73	73	73	74
Belgium	73	73	73	76
Uruguay	73	74	73	71
Iceland	72	74	74	75
United Kingdom	71	73	78	77
France	71	72	71	69
Austria	71	71	74	76
Seychelles	71	70	70	66
United States	69	69	67	67
Barbados	69	65	65	64
United Arab Emirates	68	67	69	71
Bhutan	68	68	68	68
Taiwan	67	68	68	65
Chile	66	67	67	67
Cape Verde	64	60	58	58
Bahamas	64	64	64	63
South Korea	63	63	62	61
Israel	62	63	59	60
Portugal	61	62	62	61
Lithuania	61	62	61	60
Spain	60	60	61	62
Latvia	60	59	59	57
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	60	60	59	59
Botswana	59	60	55	60
Qatar	58	58	63	63
Czech Republic	57	56	54	54
Italy	56	56	56	53
Slovenia	56	56	57	60
Dominica	56	55	55	55
Costa Rica	55	54	58	57
Saint Lucia	55	55	56	56
Poland	54	55	56	56
Slovakia	54	53	52	49
Rwanda	53	51	53	54
Georgia	53	56	55	56
Cyprus	53	52	53	57
Grenada	53	52	53	53
Saudi Arabia	52	51	53	53
Fiji	52	53	55
Mauritius	51	50	54	53
Malta	51	51	54	53
Malaysia	50	47	48	51
Croatia	50	50	47	47
Greece	49	52	49	50
Namibia	49	49	49	51
Vanuatu	48	48	45	43
Armenia	47	46	49	49
Romania	46	46	45	44
Jordan	46	47	49	49
Kuwait	46	42	43	42
Montenegro	46	45	46	45
Bulgaria	45	43	42	44
Sao Tome and Principe	45	45	45	47
Jamaica	44	44	44	44
Ghana	43	43	43	43
Senegal	43	43	43	45
Benin	43	43	42	41
Oman	43	44	52	54
Timor Leste	43	42	41	40
Solomon Islands	43	42	43	42
China	42	45	45	42
Cuba	42	45	46	47
Hungary	42	42	43	44
Moldova	42	39	36	34
North Macedonia	42	40	39	35
Bahrain	42	44	42	42
Trinidad and Tobago	42	42	41	40
Vietnam	41	42	39	36
South Africa	41	43	44	44
Burkina Faso	41	42	42	40
Tanzania	40	38	39	38
Colombia	40	39	39	39
Ivory Coast	40	37	36	36
Tunisia	40	40	44	44
Guyana	40	40	39	41
Suriname	40	40	39	38
India	39	40	40	40
Kazakhstan	39	36	37	38
Lesotho	39	37	38	41
Maldives	39	40	40	43
Morocco	38	38	39	40
Ethiopia	37	38	39	38
Argentina	37	38	38	42
Zambia	37	33	33	33
Belarus	37	39	41	47
Albania	37	36	35	36
Gambia	37	34	37	37
Brazil	36	38	38	38
Algeria	36	33	33	36
Ukraine	36	33	32	33
Serbia	36	36	38	38
Egypt	35	30	33	33
Thailand	35	36	35	36
Nepal	35	34	33	33
Dominican Republic	35	32	30	28
Sierra Leone	35	34	34	33
Panama	35	36	36	35
Bosnia and Herzegovina	35	34	35	35
Indonesia	34	34	38	37
Philippines	34	33	33	34
Turkey	34	36	38	40
Sri Lanka	34	36	37	38
Malawi	34	34	35	30
Ecuador	34	36	36	39
Angola	33	33	29	27
Uzbekistan	33	31	28	26
Peru	33	36	36	38
Mongolia	33	33	35	35
Niger	32	32	31	32
Mexico	31	31	31	31
Kenya	31	32	30	31
Togo	31	30	30	29
El Salvador	31	33	34	36
Mauritania	30	30	28	29
Eswatini	30	30	32	33
Djibouti	30	30	30	27
Pakistan	29	27	28	31
Bolivia	29	31	30	31
Papua New Guinea	29	30	31	27
Mali	28	28	29	30
Laos	28	31	30	29
Paraguay	28	28	30	28
Gabon	28	29	31	30
Cameroon	27	26	27	25
Russia	26	28	29	30
Uganda	26	26	27	27
Guinea	26	25	25	28
Kyrgyzstan	26	27	27	31
Nigeria	25	24	24	25
Mozambique	25	26	26	25
Madagascar	25	26	26	25
Liberia	25	26	29	28
Bangladesh	24	25	26	26
Iran	24	25	25	25
Zimbabwe	24	23	23	24
Lebanon	24	24	24	25
Central African Republic	24	24	24	26
Iraq	23	23	23	21
Guatemala	23	24	25	25
Honduras	23	23	23	24
Azerbaijan	23	23	30	30
Cambodia	22	24	23	21
Republic of the Congo	22	21	21	19
Guinea Bissau	22	21	21	19
Eritrea	21	22	22	21
DR Congo	20	20	19	18
Myanmar	20	23	28	28
Sudan	20	22	20	16
Afghanistan	20	24	16	19
Chad	20	19	20	21
Burundi	20	17	19	19
Tajikistan	20	24	25	25
Comoros	20	19	20	21
Turkmenistan	18	19	19	19
Libya	18	17	17	17
North Korea	17	17	16	18
Haiti	17	17	20	18
Nicaragua	17	19	20	22
Equatorial Guinea	17	17	17	16
Yemen	16	16	16	15
Venezuela	13	14	14	15
Syria	13	13	13	14
South Sudan	13	13	11	12
Somalia	11	12	13	12

2022 Corruption Perception Index - Transparency

Countries Where Bribery Is Legal 2024

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