Saturday 9 December 2023 was International Anti-Corruption Day 2023. In this video we review Africa’s progress in reducing corruption during 2012-2022 using country scores published by Transparency International in their Corruption Perceptions Index 2022 report. We identify the relative performance of 53 African countries and demonstrate the proportion of Africa’s population in countries in each of the three anti-corruption performance categories used in our analysis. We also reveal Africa’s overall performance in a global context as well as African subregional performance.

1. International Anti-Corruption Day 2023:
A key outstanding African milestone
Prepared by John Leonardo, PFMConnect, December 2023

2. Introduction
• International Anti-Corruption Day 2023 is being held on 9 December 2023
• For this year’s event, UNODC, the sponsor of International Anti-Corruption
Day, UNCAC at 20: Uniting the World Against Corruption, plans to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and the
improvements brought about by the collective efforts supported by the Convention.
• This presentation provides analyses of key African trends evident in the Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI) 2022 results for the period 2012 to 2022.

3. Africa’s anti-corruption progress 2012-2022
• The following chart demonstrates the changes in African countries’ Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI) scores in 2012-2022 reported in Transparency
International’s CPI 2022 report
• Results for 2012-2022 are available for 53 countries. No 2012 data is available for
South Sudan.

4. CPI 2022: Trend in African country scores
2012-2022
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10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
Improved Unchanged Declined
CPI 2022: Trend in African country scores 2012-2022
% of countries % population

5. African country group performances
• Charts demonstrating changes in African countries’ Corruption Perceptions Index
(CPI) scores in 2012-2022 for the following country groups are now presented:
• Countries where CPI scores have improved
• Countries where CPI scores are unchanged
• Countries where CPI scores have declined

6. CPI 2022: African countries recording higher
scores 2012-2022
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
CPI 2022: African countries recording higher scores 2012-2022

7. CPI 2022: African countries recording unchanged
scores 2012-2022
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Cabo Verde Cameroon Chad Gambia South Africa Togo
CPI 2022: African countries recording unchanged scores
2012-2022

8. CPI 2022: African countries recording lower
scores 2012-2022
-40.00%
-35.00%
-30.00%
-25.00%
-20.00%
-15.00%
-10.00%
-5.00%
0.00%
CPI 2022: African countries recording lower scores 2012-2022

9. Comparing Africa and the rest of the world
• The following chart demonstrates Africa’s regional performance in 2012-2022
(Note: Nil percentage scores are not displayed in the chart).
• The percentage of country scores that have increased in Africa are less than the
global average while the percentages of country scores that are either unchanged
or lower are greater than the global average

10. CPI 2022: Regional percentage changes in
country scores 2012-2022
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
90.00%
Africa South Asia Southeast
Asia
Asia Pacific Caribbean Central
America
North
America
South
America
Eastern
Europe and
Central Asia
Middle East
and North
Africa
Western
Europe and
European
Union
Global
CPI 2022: Regional analysis of percentage changes in country
scores 2012-2022
Increased country scores 2012-2022 No change 2012-2022 Decreased country scores 2012-2022

11. CPI 2022: African subregional percentage
changes in country scores 2012-2022
• This chart demonstrates the overall trend in African subregional country CPI
scores during 2012-2022 (Note: Nil unchanged percentage scores are not
displayed in the chart).
• East Africa was the only subregion to record a percentage increase in country CPI
scores greater than the global average in 2012-2022
• East Africa and West Africa were the only subregions to record percentage
increases in country CPI scores greater than the African average in 2012-2022

12. CPI 2022: African subregional percentage
changes in country scores 2012-2022
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10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
90.00%
Central Africa East Africa North Africa Southern Africa West Africa Africa Global
CPI 2022: African subregional percentage changes in country
scores 2012-2022
Increased country scores 2012-2022 No change 2012-2022 Decreased country scores 2012-2022

13. CPI 2022: African regional percentage changes in
country scores 2012-2022
• The following charts demonstrate percentage changes in country CPI scores
during 2012-2022 on a regional basis using the African Union’s regional
classification methodology (Note: Nil unchanged percentage scores are not
displayed in the charts).
• Charts on individual country performance are included in regional CPI videos
available on playlists on PFMConnect’s YouTube channel
https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC_tz_x_qaEAJ4mmjs5iq1zg/content/playli
sts

14. CPI 2022: Central Africa % change in CPI scores
2012-2022
-25.00%
-20.00%
-15.00%
-10.00%
-5.00%
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
Congo Gabon Equatorial
Guinea
Burundi Central
African
Republic
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
Cameroon Chad Sao Tome
and
Principe
Central
African
Average
African
Average
CPI 2022: Central Africa % change in CPI scores 2012-2022

15. CPI 2022: East Africa % change in CPI scores
2012-2022
-40.00%
-20.00%
0.00%
20.00%
40.00%
60.00%
80.00%
Comoros Madagascar Djibouti Mauritius Eritrea Uganda Rwanda Tanzania Ethiopia Kenya Seychelles Somalia Sudan East Africa
Average
African
Average
CPI 2022: East Africa % change in CPI scores 2012-2022

16. CPI 2022: North Africa - % change in country CPI
scores 2012-2022
-25.00%
-20.00%
-15.00%
-10.00%
-5.00%
0.00%
5.00%
Libya Egypt Mauritania Algeria Tunisia Morocco North Africa
Average
African Average
CPI 2022: North Africa % change in CPI scores 2012-2022

17. CPI 2022: Southern Africa - % change in country
scores 2012-2022
-30.00%
-20.00%
-10.00%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
Eswatini Lesotho Mozambique Zambia Malawi Botswana South Africa Namibia Zimbabwe Angola Southern Africa
average
African
average
CPI 2022: Southern Africa % change in country scores 2012-2022

18. CPI 2022: West Africa - % change in country CPI
scores 2012-2022
-40.00%
-30.00%
-20.00%
-10.00%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
Liberia Mali Guinea
Bissau
Nigeria Ghana Niger Cabo
Verde
Gambia Togo Guinea Sierra
Leone
Burkina
Faso
Benin Senegal Cote
d'Ivoire
West
Africa
Average
African
Average
CPI 2022: West Africa % change in CPI scores 2012-2022

19. Conclusion
• Our finding that the CPI 2022 results demonstrated that more than
half of Africa’s population were living in countries where corruption
has increased since 2012 is very concerning.
• While there are some success stories, the overall result surrounding
action to reduce corruption since 2012 is currently negative.
• We would like to think that the CPI 2023 results will yield a more
positive picture.

20. About us
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public finance and digital communication
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