Informal payments to public officials

Percentage of establishments that consider that firms with characteristics similar to theirs are making informal payments or giving gifts to public officials to "get things done” with regard to customs, taxes, licenses, regulations, services etc.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
180
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank

    Enterprise Surveys, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/data

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202512.25percent
Albania202516.69percent
Antigua and Barbuda20253.07percent
Australia20250.14percent
Austria20251.19percent
Belgium20254.18percent
Belize20258.04percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of202522.45percent
Brazil202512.38percent
Brunei Darussalam20258.16percent

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