GLOBAL CORRUPTION BAROMETER 10th EDITION 1999-2019

20 years of giving voice to Africans

AFRICA 2019

GHANA
33%
Think corruption
increased in the
previous 12 months
30%
Think their government is
doing a bad job of tackling
corruption

33% 60%
Of public service users Think that ordinary citizens
paid a bribe in the can make a difference in the
previous 12 months fight against corruption

BRIBERY RATES* CORRUPTION BY INSTITUTION*

* Based on people who used these public services in the previous 12 months.
* Percentage who think that most or all people in these institutions are corrupt.
2015 2019
INSTITUTION 2015 2019
Overall bribery rate 36% 33%
Public schools 24% 15% President / Prime Minister 47% 27%
Public clinics and health centers 17% 12% Members of Parliament 48% 32%
IDs 38% 33% Government officials 53% 35%
Utilities 35% 23% Local government officials 43% 27%
Police 58% 34% Police 64% 59%
Judges and Magistrates 49% 38%
Religious leaders 25% 17%

HAS CORRUPTION LEVEL CHANGED NGOs - 14%

IN THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS? Business Executives 44% 22%

Traditional leaders 37% 28%

2015 2019
IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING
Increased 76% 33%
A GOOD OR BAD JOB OF
Decreased 8% 36% FIGHTING CORRUPTION?
Stayed the same 9% 22%
Don’t know 8% 9%
2015 2019
Refused to answer 0% 0%

Good 25% 60%

CAN ORDINARY PEOPLE MAKE Bad 71% 30%

A DIFFERENCE IN THE FIGHT

Don’t know 4% 10%
Refused to answer 0% 0%
AGAINST CORRUPTION?
With more than 47,000 citizens surveyed
2015 2019 in 35 countries, the Global Corruption
Barometer (GCB) is the largest, most
detailed public opinion survey of citizen
Yes 53% 60% views on corruption and bribery in Africa.
No 36% 31%
transparency.org/GCB10/africa
Neither yes nor no 6% 4% www.afrobarometer.org
Don’t know / refused to answer 4% 5%