Go to target 16.4
Target 16.5: Substantially reduce corruption and bribery
Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms.
Indicators
16.5.2
Proportion of businesses that had at least one contact with a public official and that paid a bribe to a public official, or were asked for a bribe by those public officials during the previous 12 months
Definition
Denmark does not produce continuous official statistics in accordance with the methodology underlying the indicator. However, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2024, Denmark has a very low level of corruption compared with other countries and ranks highest with a score of 90. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories based on perceived levels of public sector corruption on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). On this basis, Statistics Denmark assesses that the share of individuals who have paid or been asked to pay a bribe to a public official is very low.
Denmark’s development in CPI scores is measured in the national indicator VM 16.5.1.