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title: "corruption levels in European countries and Ukraine's ranking compared to other European countries"
analysis_id: "jjZb9uicMszLJLtrqoDs"
model: accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v4p1-flash
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# Data analysis: corruption levels in European countries and Ukraine's ranking compared to other European countries

Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Checked on: 09/10/2026

## Findings

##### Corruption levels in Europe (Corruption Perceptions Index, Eurostat)

**Important caveat on Ukraine first:** The Eurostat *Corruption Perceptions Index* dataset[^1] — the only corruption‑level dataset available in Eurostat or OECD — does **not** include Ukraine. Across the whole series (2012–2025, 44 reporting entities) there are **zero** observations for Ukraine. I also checked the OECD alternatives: Ukraine appears in the codelists of the OECD *Public Integrity Indicators*[^4] and the *Government at a Glance* integrity tables[^5][^6], but the latter return no data for Ukraine (they cover only \~33 OECD members), and the Public Integrity Indicators measure institutional/anti‑corruption *frameworks* rather than a corruption level. **So I cannot provide Ukraine's ranking relative to other European countries from the available data.**

###### What the data does show: European countries, CPI 2025

The CPI score runs 0–100, where **a higher score = less corrupt**. Latest‑year (2025) ranking of the 39 European countries covered[^1]:

| Rank | Country | Score |  | Rank | Country | Score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 🇩🇰 Denmark | 89 |  | 21 | 🇪🇸 Spain | 55 |
| 2 | 🇫🇮 Finland | 88 |  | 22 | 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 55 |
| 3 | 🇳🇴 Norway | 81 |  | 23 | 🇵🇱 Poland | 53 |
| 4 | 🇸🇪 Sweden | 80 |  | 24 | 🇮🇹 Italy | 53 |
| 5 | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 80 |  | 25 | 🇬🇷 Greece | 50 |
| 6 | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 78 |  | 26 | 🇲🇹 Malta | 49 |
| 7 | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | 78 |  | 27 | 🇸🇰 Slovakia | 48 |
| 8 | 🇩🇪 Germany | 77 |  | 28 | 🇭🇷 Croatia | 47 |
| 9 | 🇮🇸 Iceland | 77 |  | 29 | 🇲🇪 Montenegro | 46 |
| 10 | 🇪🇪 Estonia | 76 |  | 30 | 🇷🇴 Romania | 45 |
| 11 | 🇮🇪 Ireland | 76 |  | 31 | 🇽🇰 Kosovo | 43 |
| 12 | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 70 |  | 32 | 🇭🇺 Hungary | 40 |
| 13 | 🇧🇪 Belgium | 69 |  | 33 | 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | 40 |
| 14 | 🇦🇹 Austria | 69 |  | 34 | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia | 40 |
| 15 | 🇫🇷 France | 66 |  | 35 | 🇦🇱 Albania | 39 |
| 16 | 🇱🇹 Lithuania | 65 |  | 36 | 🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina | 34 |
| 17 | 🇱🇻 Latvia | 60 |  | 37 | 🇷🇸 Serbia | 33 |
| 18 | 🇨🇿 Czechia | 59 |  | 38 | 🇹🇷 Türkiye | 31 |
| 19 | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | 58 |  | 39 | 🇷🇺 Russia | 22 |
| 20 | 🇵🇹 Portugal | 56 |  |  |  |  |

For reference, the aggregates were **EU‑27 average = 62** and **euro area (EA21) = 63** in 2025[^1]. The Nordic countries and Switzerland top the list; the Western Balkans, Türkiye and Russia sit at the bottom.

I generated two charts during the analysis: a horizontal bar chart of the 2025 scores (`cpi_2025_europe.svg`) and a 2012–2025 trend line for selected countries plus the EU average (`cpi_trend.svg`).

###### Bottom line

- I can describe corruption levels for **European countries** (above), where Denmark and Finland are the cleanest and Russia/Türkiye/Serbia the most corrupt in 2025.
- I **cannot** place **Ukraine** in that ranking: Ukraine is absent from the Eurostat Corruption Perceptions Index dataset and no other Eurostat/OECD dataset provides a comparable corruption level for it.

[^1]:
    [Eurostat dataset: Corruption Perceptions Index](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_16_50/default/table)

[^4]:
    [OECD dataset: Public Integrity Indicators](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?lc=en&df%5Bds%5D=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df%5Bid%5D=DSD_PII%40DF_PUBLIC_INTEGRITY&df%5Bag%5D=OECD.GOV.PSI)

[^5]:
    [OECD dataset: Perception of public sector integrity - Government at a glance indicators, 2025 edition](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?lc=en&df%5Bds%5D=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df%5Bid%5D=DSD_GOV_INT%40DF_GOV_INT_2025&df%5Bag%5D=OECD.GOV.GIP)

[^6]:
    [OECD dataset: Trust, security and dignity - government at a glance indicators, 2025 edition](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?lc=en&df%5Bds%5D=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df%5Bid%5D=DSD_GOV_INT%40DF_GOV_TDG_2025&df%5Bag%5D=OECD.GOV.GIP)