Regional grouping :

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Target Target 16.5 Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms

16.5.2 Proportion of businesses that had at least one contact with a public official and that paid a bribe to a public official, or were asked for a bribe by those public officials during the previous 12 months


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Bribery incidence (% of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request) (%)

Country/Area grouping200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Angola.........19.3.........51.3.......................................
Botswana.........5.3.........8.4.......................................
Burundi.........25.3.....................30.3...........................
Cameroon..................33.9..................26.7.....................
Cabo Verde..................2.0..........................................
Central African Republic........................21.0....................................
Chad..................35.0........................27.4...............
Congo..................37.5..........................................
Democratic Republic of the Congo.........68.9.........57.2......56.5..............................
Benin..................34.5..................14.6.....................
Ethiopia........................6.5.........26.9........................
Eritrea..................0.0..........................................
Djibouti..............................11.1..............................
Gabon..................23.2..........................................
Gambia, the.........25.1.................................9.2...............
Ghana............23.0...............18.7..............................
Guinea.........60.7...........................7.9.....................
Cote d'Ivoire..................19.3..................25.3.....................
Kenya............42.0...............26.4............23.9...............
Lesotho..................14.6..................14.6.....................
Liberia..................70.5.....................56.1..................
Madagascar..................11.6.........32.9........................19.2...
Malawi..................13.7............24.2...........................
Mali............33.3......27.3...............33.7.....................
Mauritania.........52.9.....................28.9...........................
Mauritius..................3.9..........................................
Morocco..............................37.3...............16.9............
Mozambique............12.4..............................21.1...............
Namibia.........1.2.....................9.1...........................
Niger..................18.5.....................7.8..................
Nigeria............40.0..................28.9...........................
Guinea-Bissau.........27.6...................................................
Rwanda.........7.0............6.9.....................4.1............
Senegal............21.4..................11.1...........................
Sierra Leone..................18.1.....................46.2..................
South Africa............4.2....................................1.5.........
Zimbabwe........................16.2............17.5.....................
Sudan.................................17.6...........................
Eswatini.........5.7...........................6.7.....................
Togo..................19.1..................7.0.....................
Tunisia..............................10.3..................11.9.........
Uganda.........18.6..................22.0..............................
Egypt..............................17.4......15.2.........4.9.........
United Republic of Tanzania.........21.7..................20.8..............................
Burkina Faso..................9.8..........................................
Zambia............7.1...............14.7...............9.6............
South Sudan.................................48.0...........................