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🏭 Bribery incidence

The percent of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request across 6 public transactions dealing with utilities access, permits, licenses, and taxes.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
48.1% – 20.5%20.4% – 9.8%9.8% – 7.1%6.9% – 2.6%2.6% – 0.0%No data
1
🇰🇮Kiribati
48.1%
2
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
44.5%
3
🇩🇯Djibouti
40.2%
4
🇰🇪Kenya
33.2%
5
🇲🇷Mauritania
29.4%
6
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
27.6%
7
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
26.2%
8
🇲🇼Malawi
26.0%
9
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
22.6%
10
🇳🇬Nigeria
22.4%
11
🇲🇿Mozambique
22.1%
12
🇱🇷Liberia
20.6%
13
🇬🇦Gabon
20.5%
14
🇺🇬Uganda
20.4%
15
🇹🇭Thailand
19.0%
16
🇪🇹Ethiopia
17.7%
17
🇲🇳Mongolia
16.1%
18
🇦🇱Albania
15.1%
19
🇧🇴Bolivia
14.6%
20
🇸🇴Somalia
14.4%
21
🇧🇮Burundi
14.0%
22
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
13.6%
23
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
13.5%
24
🇧🇿Belize
10.8%
25
🇧🇷Brazil
9.8%
26
🇶🇦Qatar
9.8%
27
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
9.5%
28
🇦🇫Afghanistan
9.5%
29
🇸🇷Suriname
9.4%
30
🇰🇲Comoros
9.0%
31
🇮🇳India
8.7%
32
🇵🇱Poland
8.0%
33
🇬🇳Guinea
7.6%
34
🇵🇦Panama
7.6%
35
🇬🇩Grenada
7.2%
36
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
7.1%
37
🇬🇹Guatemala
7.1%
38
🇫🇯Fiji
6.9%
39
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
6.3%
40
🇳🇱Netherlands
6.1%
41
🇿🇲Zambia
6.1%
42
🇧🇪Belgium
5.7%
43
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
5.5%
44
🇧🇳Brunei
3.3%
45
🇪🇬Egypt
3.1%
46
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
3.1%
47
🇳🇪Niger
2.9%
48
🇨🇱Chile
2.6%
49
🇲🇻Maldives
2.6%
50
🇨🇿Czechia
2.6%

Highlights

As of 2025, Kiribati ranks first with 48.1%, followed by Zimbabwe (44.5%) and Djibouti (40.2%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 48.1% (Kiribati) to 0.0% (Lithuania), with a median of 8.7%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 1 from the Americas, 1 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Bribery incidence (% of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Bribery incidence (% of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026