Corruption in Bahrain

Statistical evaluations

In Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index, Bahrain scored 50 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Bahrain ranked 56th among the 182 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. For comparison with regional scores, the best score among Middle Eastern and North African countries was 69, the average was 39 and the worst was 13. For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 89 (ranked 1), the average was 42, and the worst was 9 (ranked 181 in a two-way tie).

Scores are on a 0-100 scale, with 0 being a perception of very low public sector honesty and 100 being a perception of very high public sector honesty.