Corruption in Bahrain

In Transparency International's 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), Bahrain scored 44. When ranked by score, Bahrain ranked 69th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [1] For comparison, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the worst score was 12 (ranked 180), and the average score was 43.[2]

Political corruption
Concepts
Corruption by country
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Central America
South America
Oceania

Bahrain became a party with United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2010 after signing it in 2005.[3]

Statistical evaluations
Years 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Corruption Perceptions Index score
51
48
49
51
43
36
36
42
42
42
44
Scores are on a 0-100 scale, with 0 being a perception of very low public sector honesty and 100 being a perception of very high public sector honesty.

Notable incidents of fraud and corruption
  • Alcoa-Alba corruption case, a $6m bribe case.[4]

See also

References
  1. "The ABCs of the CPI: How the Corruption Perceptions Index is calculated". Transparency.org. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  2. "Corruption Perceptions Index 2022: Bahrain". Transparency.org. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  3. Staff writer. "United Nations Convention against Corruption". UNODC. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  4. Simeon Kerr (27 October 2011). "Bahraini royal accused in $6m bribe case". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 December 2011.


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