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Money-laundering risk

Risk scores from 0 to 10 for how exposed each country is to money laundering and related financial crime, and how well it can counter them, from the Basel Institute on Governance.

Major money-laundering jurisdictions named by the US State Department, 2024

World map with major money-laundering jurisdictions named by the US State Department for 2024 in purple, other countries in beige, and small territories as dots

US State Department list for 2024. Small territories are drawn as dots.

  • Named major money-laundering jurisdiction
  • Not on that list

The 81 jurisdictions named by the US State Department as major money-laundering jurisdictions for 2024. This map shows that US State Department list, not scores from the Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index.

Map: Fix Planet, drawn from the US Department of State, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2025, Volume 2: Money Laundering (public domain).

Crime 2025 Basel

What it is

The Basel AML Index (AML stands for anti-money laundering) is an independent ranking maintained since 2012 by the International Centre for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance. Its 14th Public Edition, published in December 2025, scores 177 countries and jurisdictions on a scale from 0 to 10, where 10 means the highest risk. The score combines 17 indicators from publicly accessible sources in five domains: the quality of rules against money laundering and the financing of terrorism and of weapons of mass destruction; corruption and fraud; financial transparency and standards; public transparency and accountability; and legal and political risks.

Why it matters

The Basel Institute links money laundering to crimes such as corruption, fraud, environmental crime and drug trafficking. In 2025, Myanmar (8.18), Haiti (8.12) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (7.63) have the highest risk scores, and Finland (3.03), Iceland (3.04) and San Marino (3.08) the lowest. The global average edged down from 5.30 to 5.28; more than half of jurisdictions improved their scores while 43% worsened.

How to read it

A higher score means greater assessed vulnerability and weaker capacity to counter money laundering. The score is a composite risk assessment built from other organisations’ data, with the largest weight (35%) on evaluations by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the intergovernmental body that sets global standards in this field. Only jurisdictions with enough data are ranked. The preview map shows the 81 jurisdictions that the US State Department named as major money-laundering jurisdictions for 2024; its report is one of the public sources behind the Index.

Limits

Data collection for the 2025 edition closed on 10 November 2025. Russia is excluded from the Public Edition following the suspension of its membership of the FATF. A separate Expert Edition, updated quarterly, covers 203 jurisdictions with scores for each indicator. The US list marks countries whose financial institutions handle significant amounts of proceeds from international drug trafficking, and it carries no sanctions.

Sources

License

Map: Fix Planet, drawn from the US Department of State, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2025, Volume 2: Money Laundering (public domain).

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