Corruption in Chile

In Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index Chile was ranked number 32 among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked number 1 is perceived to have the most honest public sector. It was ranked 6th among the countries of the Americas, behind Uruguay, Canada, Barbados, the Bahamas and the United States.

In that index, Chile was given a score of 63 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). For comparison with regional scores, the highest score among the countries of the Americas was 76, the average score was 42 and the lowest score was 10. For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 8 (ranked 180).

According to a 2021 study the regions of Ñuble, Los Lagos and Aysén are the most susceptible to suffer nepotism and elite capture.

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