Firms reporting informal payments to public officials
Compare firms reporting informal payments to public officials across 61 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source slice.
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Key Insights
- •61 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2025 observation.
- •Mauritania has the highest published value (42.08137894 % of firms).
- •Kuwait has the lowest published value (0 % of firms).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 10.5% of firms)
About This Statistic
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.
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
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.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mauritania | 42.1% of firms |
| 2 | Uganda | 40.3% of firms |
| 3 | Kenya | 39.5% of firms |
| 4 | Zimbabwe | 31.1% of firms |
| 5 | Nigeria | 29.4% of firms |
| 6 | Gabon | 28.1% of firms |
| 7 | Mozambique | 26.9% of firms |
| 8 | Guinea-Bissau | 26.7% of firms |
| 9 | Djibouti | 26.1% of firms |
| 10 | Sri Lanka | 25.7% of firms |
| 11 | Bolivia | 22.5% of firms |
| 12 | Albania | 16.7% of firms |
| 13 | Somalia | 16.2% of firms |
| 14 | Sao Tome and Principe | 16.1% of firms |
| 15 | Liberia | 16.0% of firms |
| 16 | Malawi | 15.9% of firms |
| 17 | Solomon Islands | 15.0% of firms |
| 18 | Burundi | 13.2% of firms |
| 19 | Brazil | 12.4% of firms |
| 20 | Afghanistan | 12.3% of firms |
| 21 | Comoros | 11.8% of firms |
| 22 | Maldives | 11.2% of firms |
| 23 | Ethiopia | 11.1% of firms |
| 24 | Mongolia | 10.2% of firms |
| 25 | Czech Republic | 9.2% of firms |
| 26 | Brunei Darussalam | 8.2% of firms |
| 27 | Belize | 8.0% of firms |
| 28 | India | 7.9% of firms |
| 29 | Trinidad and Tobago | 7.9% of firms |
| 30 | Poland | 6.5% of firms |
| 31 | France | 6.1% of firms |
| 32 | Thailand | 5.8% of firms |
| 33 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 5.7% of firms |
| 34 | Kiribati | 5.5% of firms |
| 35 | Niger | 5.4% of firms |
| 36 | Zambia | 5.2% of firms |
| 37 | Dominican Republic | 4.6% of firms |
| 38 | Belgium | 4.2% of firms |
| 39 | Suriname | 4.1% of firms |
| 40 | Grenada | 3.5% of firms |
| 41 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3.1% of firms |
| 42 | Guatemala | 3.1% of firms |
| 43 | Guinea | 2.6% of firms |
| 44 | Fiji | 2.3% of firms |
| 45 | Saint Lucia | 2.2% of firms |
| 46 | Lithuania | 2.1% of firms |
| 47 | Finland | 1.8% of firms |
| 48 | Netherlands | 1.6% of firms |
| 49 | Germany | 1.5% of firms |
| 50 | Chile | 1.2% of firms |
| 51 | Austria | 1.2% of firms |
| 52 | Saudi Arabia | 1.0% of firms |
| 53 | Qatar | 0.7% of firms |
| 54 | Denmark | 0.7% of firms |
| 55 | Egypt | 0.4% of firms |
| 56 | Switzerland | 0.3% of firms |
| 57 | Japan | 0.2% of firms |
| 58 | Panama | 0.2% of firms |
| 59 | Australia | 0.1% of firms |
| 60 | Norway | 0.0% of firms |
| 61 | Kuwait | 0.0% of firms |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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