In 2025, Ukraine improved its score in the Corruption Perception Index by one point, ranking 104th out of 182 countries. This was reported by the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption.
According to Transparency International Ukraine, the country now holds a score of 36 in the CPI, allowing it to secure the 104th position in the global ranking.
This current assessment reflects a period when Ukraine solidified its anti-corruption institutions, continued implementing the State Anti-Corruption Program for 2023-2025, and actively developed a new Anti-Corruption Strategy for the next five years.
Whistleblowers received their first rewards based on court decisions, lobbying became operational, and the management of seized assets was reformed.
This period was marked by numerous corruption crime revelations and an increase in convictions of high-ranking officials.
Since 2013, Ukraine has made progress of 11 points, climbing from the 144th position in the ranking (+40 positions).
Only about 20 countries have shown such growth. In the meantime, the overall global trend remains unchanged, with the vast majority of states either worsening or at least not improving their CPI scores.
As noted by the NAPC, Ukraine remains the only country in the world improving its anti-corruption indicators amidst a large-scale war and occupation.
Over four years of Russian aggression, compared to the pre-war year of 2021, Ukraine added 4 points to its CPI.
The CPI is calculated on a 100-point scale, where 0 indicates that corruption is the predominant form of social relations and a substitute for the state, while 100 means that corruption is virtually absent in the country.
Transparency International has been measuring the CPI since 1995. The methodology was updated in 2012, making comparisons appropriate only from that year onward.
The scores received by countries in the CPI do not reflect the objective situation with corruption in the country but rather how it is perceived by experts from reputable analytical organizations and entrepreneurs.
The CPI exclusively assesses the perception of corruption in the public sector and does not account for manifestations of petty corruption.
The index is an aggregated indicator calculated based on 13 different sources (studies, reports, and surveys) from 12 institutions (for Ukraine in 2025 - based on 8 sources, such as the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, surveys of managers from the World Economic Forum, and the Varieties of Democracy Index).
Different sources of the CPI focus on various issues, particularly on the effectiveness of the punishment and prevention system for corruption, transparency and accountability in budget expenditures, the level of government intervention in the economy, protection of whistleblowers, and the highlighting of corruption cases in the media.
According to Viktor Pavlushchik, head of the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption, the new Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2030 will place significant emphasis on digitalization, as it reduces corruption risks.
