Transparency International (Corruption Perceptions Index)

Name: Transparency International (Corruption Perceptions Index)
Creator: Transparency International
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)Governance & Institutions

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

182

Temporal coverage

2012-12-31 – 2024-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Corruption Perceptions Index (2024) by Transparency International is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi
Provider terms: https://www.transparency.org/en/copyright-enquiries

How to cite

Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index. RETRIEVED VIA Our World In Data's republication of the CPI (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ti-corruption-perception-index.csv), not from transparency.org directly. TI's CPI datasets are CC BY 4.0 and OWID's republication is CC BY 4.0. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from Our World In Data's republication of TI's CPI, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download transparency_ti series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/transparency_ti
Update cadence: annual
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet (~4KB), columns series_key(TI_CPI:cpi_score:{iso3}), obs_date(Dec-31 of year), value(float64 CPI score). ~180 countries x ~13 years.

Full description

Transparency International — Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), 180 countries. License: CC BY-ND 4.0 (TI) / CC BY 4.0 (OWID) Source: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi via OWID: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ti-corruption-perception-index.csv Coverage: * CPI Score (0=highly corrupt, 100=very clean), 2012–2024 * ~180 countries series_key: TI_CPI:cpi_score:{iso3} e.g. TI_CPI:cpi_score:AFG Output: data/clean_full/transparency_ti/transparency_ti.parquet Run: python jobs/ingest_transparency.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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