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Intentional homicide rates
Comparable rates of intentional homicide from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, one measure of violent crime.
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Corruption Perceptions Index
Perceived public-sector corruption on a scale from 0 to 100, from expert and business surveys: a measure of governance risk.
Transparency International; Our World in Data. CPI 2025.
What
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025 ranks countries on perceived public-sector corruption. The scale runs from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), combining expert and business surveys. Our World in Data republishes the series as an open map. This is a governance-risk composite, not a count of bribery cases and not a violent-crime rate.
Why on this shelf
Perceived public-sector corruption is a different public-harm signal from UNODC intentional homicide. Never merge this card with the homicide layer.
How to read it
A score is a perception composite, not a tally of prosecutions or street crime. The year label is the CPI edition year (here 2025), not necessarily the calendar year of every underlying survey. Higher is cleaner. Compare nearby editions; one- or two-point moves are often noise. Open the Transparency International edition page for the official scores; open the OWID grapher for the interactive map.
Caveats
Missing countries are not “clean.” Household experience of bribery is a different series. Do not read the thumbnail as a most-corrupt-country list. This is not a homicide choropleth.
Sources
License
We host a cropped Wikimedia Commons CPI 2025 country choropleth (Cnscrptr and ConnerMiner, CC BY-SA 4.0), drawn from Transparency International CPI 2025 data. Our World in Data republishes the CPI as an open map (CC BY). Open transparency.org/en/cpi/2025 for the edition.
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