France

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Basic Country Information

Region: Europe & North America
Income Group: High Income
Population: 68.52 million
GNI per Capita: 46150 USD
Urban population: 82% of total
Life expectancy at birth: 83 years
Human Development Index (HDI): 0.92

How does France control corruption?

Forecasted trend:

Stationary

	Integrity	Transparency
Country’s Score	8.71/10	18.5/20
World Rank	7/119	3/143
Regional Rank	6/33	3/33
Income group Rank	7/53	3/53

Index of Public Integrity

IPI Score: 8.71 / 10

The IPI score is the mean of the six components scores, which result from the standardization and normalization of original source data to range between 1 and 10 using a min-max-transformation, with higher values representing better performance.

Components	Component Score (max=10)	World Rank	Income Group Rank	Regional Rank
Opportunities for Corruption
Administrative Burden	0	/119	/53	/33
Trade Openness	0	/119	/53	/33
Administrative Transparency	10	1/119	1/53	1/33
Online Services	8.37	32/119	25/53	17/33
Budget Transparency	8.93	22/119	12/53	10/33
Constraints on Corruption
Judicial Independence	7.46	16/119	15/53	9/33
Freedom of the Press	8.05	22/119	22/53	20/33
E-Citizenship	9.44	6/119	6/53	4/33

Opportunities are permanent enabling circumstances for corruption. Empirical evidence exists that administrative discretion (lack of administrative transparency and poor regulation) combined with unaccountable resources (non-transparent public finance, both from domestic sources and international aid) create opportunities for corruption.

Constraints are permanent disabling circumstances of corruption. They encompass the legal response of authorities as well as the response by society (a free press and digitally enabled citizens organized as civil society or as individual voters).

Societies manage to control corruption if they find the right balance between opportunities and constraints.

Transparency in France

T-Index Score: 18.5 / 20 (20 = 100%)

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The total fulfillment of items on De Jure and De Facto adds up to 100%
on the basis of which we calculate the individual performance of a country

De Facto Transparency: 12.5 / 14

De Facto Components ↓ Live, online, and freely accessible sources of public data. These data sources were assessed as complete and freely available (1 point), partial and/or paid access (0.5 point), or missing (0 points).
Past expenditures (last fiscal year)	Yes
Current expenditures (budget tracker)	No
Public Procurement Portal	Yes
Land cadaster	Yes
Register of commerce	Yes
Auditor General's report	Yes
Supreme Court's hearings schedule	Yes
Supreme Court's rulings	Yes
Financial disclosures for public officials	Partial
Conflict of interest disclosures	Yes
Official Development Assistance (ODA)	Yes
Mining concessions	Yes
Building permits in the capital city	Yes
Official gazette	Yes

De Jure Transparency: 6 / 6

De Jure Components ↓ Formal transparency commitments by governments. Formal agreements that met category criteria (see Methodology) were assessed as existing (1 point) or not (0 points).
Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA)	Yes
Open Government Partnership (OGP)	Yes
United Nations Conventions Against Corruption (UNCAC)	Yes
Financial Action Task Force Against Money Laundering (or equivalent)	Yes
Plurinational transparency agreement (EITI, OECD, WTO GPA, or CPTPP)	Yes
Beneficial Ownership	Yes

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France's Corruption Forecast

Forecasted trend:

Stationary

France, which has historically pioneered a merit-based civil service and has some of the finest public accountability laws in the European Union, has been constantly shaken by political corruption scandals over the past thirty years. Its judiciary is not sufficiently autonomous from the government, resulting in weak prosecution of corruption, particularly at top levels, although this has improved somewhat in the last few years. Restrictive laws and conservative-minded magistrates restrict the media’s capacity to disclose corruption and result in reports that appear only after official investigations have begun. Better oversight is needed to monitor compliance with international legislation by companies seeking local government approvals when operating abroad. France is a champion of e-transparency in the European Union, but has declined significantly on online services in the past decade.

Components	2015	2025	Trendline
Budget Transparency	8.47	8.74		0
Judicial Independence	6.95	7.46		0
Press Freedom	8.03	8.18		0
E-Citizenship	6.39	9.45		1
Online Services	9.74	8.37		-1

positive change; negative change; change not statically significant.

For Budget Transparency, period considered is 2008-2019. For Judicial Independence, last value available is for 2019. Due to insufficient data on Facebook users, E-citizenship was computed as the mean of the remaining two sub-indicators (fixed broadband subscriptions and Internet users). Missing values for 2020 in either of the sub-indicators were replaced with the latest available data point.