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🏭 Informal payments to public officials

Percentage of establishments that consider that firms with characteristics similar to theirs are making informal payments or giving gifts to public officials to "get things done” with regard to customs, taxes, licenses, regulations, services etc.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
42.1% – 16.2%16.1% – 9.2%8.2% – 4.6%4.2% – 1.5%1.2% – 0.0%No data
1
🇲🇷Mauritania
42.1%
2
🇺🇬Uganda
40.3%
3
🇰🇪Kenya
39.5%
4
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
31.1%
5
🇳🇬Nigeria
29.4%
6
🇬🇦Gabon
28.1%
7
🇲🇿Mozambique
26.9%
8
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
26.7%
9
🇩🇯Djibouti
26.1%
10
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
25.7%
11
🇧🇴Bolivia
22.5%
12
🇦🇱Albania
16.7%
13
🇸🇴Somalia
16.2%
14
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
16.1%
15
🇱🇷Liberia
16.0%
16
🇲🇼Malawi
15.9%
17
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
15.0%
18
🇧🇮Burundi
13.2%
19
🇧🇷Brazil
12.4%
20
🇦🇫Afghanistan
12.3%
21
🇰🇲Comoros
11.8%
22
🇲🇻Maldives
11.2%
23
🇪🇹Ethiopia
11.1%
24
🇲🇳Mongolia
10.2%
25
🇨🇿Czechia
9.2%
26
🇧🇳Brunei
8.2%
27
🇧🇿Belize
8.0%
28
🇮🇳India
7.9%
29
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
7.9%
30
🇵🇱Poland
6.5%
31
🇫🇷France
6.1%
32
🇹🇭Thailand
5.8%
33
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
5.7%
34
🇰🇮Kiribati
5.5%
35
🇳🇪Niger
5.4%
36
🇿🇲Zambia
5.2%
37
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
4.6%
38
🇧🇪Belgium
4.2%
39
🇸🇷Suriname
4.1%
40
🇬🇩Grenada
3.5%
41
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
3.1%
42
🇬🇹Guatemala
3.1%
43
🇬🇳Guinea
2.6%
44
🇫🇯Fiji
2.3%
45
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
2.2%
46
🇱🇹Lithuania
2.1%
47
🇫🇮Finland
1.8%
48
🇳🇱Netherlands
1.6%
49
🇩🇪Germany
1.5%
50
🇨🇱Chile
1.2%

Highlights

As of 2025, Mauritania ranks first with 42.1%, followed by Uganda (40.3%) and Kenya (39.5%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 42.1% (Mauritania) to 0.0% (Kuwait), with a median of 6.1%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 9 from Africa and 1 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Informal payments to public officials (% of firms), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Informal payments to public officials (% of firms) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026