TRANSPARENCY
Brazil’s Corruption Perceptions Index stalls as scandals expose systemic weaknesses
Retired workers protest in front of a branch of the National Social Security Institute (INSS), after discovering that part of their pensions had been stolen by a corruption scheme. Photo: Evandro Leal/Enquadrar/Folhapress
Brazil scored 35 out of 100 in Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index — a marginal one-point improvement from 2024, which the organization deems statistically insignificant. The score marks the country's second-worst performance in the index's history, seeing it drop below both the global and Latin American averages (both 42) and ranking 107th among 182 countries studied.
Transparency International’s Brazil office also published an annual report on the ebbs and flows of the fight against corruption in the country last year, in which it lists a series of massive scandals that ensnared all branches of government, such as…
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