The European Union's overall score from Transparency International's corruption perception index has been stable since 2016, with the EU scoring 64 out of 100 in every year since then. The index measures corruption across a wide range of indicators, where a score of 100 indicates no corruption and a score of zero indicates widespread corruption.
Annual Corruption Perceptions Index score for the European Union from 2012 to 2022
(index score where 100 is least corrupt)
Characteristic
Index score (out of 100)
2022
64
2021
64
2020
64
2019
64
2018
64
2017
64
2016
64
2015
65
2014
64
2013
63
2012
63
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