Corruption in Bahrain

Corruption in Bahrain is an ongoing concern for the nation. Bahrain became a party with United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2010 after signing it in 2005.^[1]

Statistical evaluations

In Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), Bahrain scored 53. When ranked by score, Bahrain ranked 53rd among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.^[2] For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 8 (ranked 180).^[3] For comparison with regional scores, the average score among Middle Eastern and North African countries ^{[Note 1]} was 34. The best score among Middle Eastern and North African countries was 68 and the worst score was 12.^[4]

Years	2012[5]	2013[6]	2014[7]	2015[8]	2016[9]	2017[10]	2018[11]	2019[12]	2020[13]	2021[14]	2022[15]	2023[16]	2024[17]
Corruption Perceptions Index score	51	48	49	51	43	36	36	42	42	42	44	42	53

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.

Notable incidents of fraud and corruption

• Alcoa-Alba corruption case, a $6m bribe case.^[18]

Notes

1. Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen

See also

• Bahrain Transparency Society
• International Anti-Corruption Academy
• Group of States Against Corruption
• International Anti-Corruption Day
• ISO 37001 Anti-bribery management systems
• United Nations Convention against Corruption
• OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
• Transparency International