Corruption in Chile

In Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index, Chile was ranked number 31 among the 182 countries in the Index, where the country ranked number 1 is perceived to have the most honest public sector. It was ranked seventh among the countries of the Americas, behind Canada, Uruguay, Barbados, the United States, the Bahamas and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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 best score among the countries of the Americas was 75, the average score was 42 and the worst score was 10. For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 89 (ranked 1), the average score was 42, and the worst score was 9 (ranked 181, in a two-way tie).

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

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