Index of Public Integrity
IPI Score: 7.88 / 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 |
9.01 |
31/113 |
22/0 |
1/18 |
Trade Openness |
7.84 |
93/113 |
39/0 |
14/18 |
Administrative Transparency |
6.63 |
49/114 |
31/38 |
8/18 |
Online Services |
8.36 |
26/114 |
20/38 |
4/18 |
Budget Transparency |
7.21 |
64/114 |
29/38 |
14/18 |
Constraints on Corruption
|
Judicial Independence |
7.84 |
18/114 |
18/38 |
1/18 |
Freedom of the Press |
8.79 |
15/114 |
14/38 |
2/18 |
E-Citizenship |
8.45 |
18/114 |
18/38 |
1/18 |
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.
Read more in the methodology.
No IPI data for Uruguay
Transparency in Uruguay
T-Index Score: 13.5 / 19
De Facto Transparency: 9.5 / 14
De Jure Transparency: 4 / 5
No TI data for Uruguay
Uruguay's Corruption Forecast
Forecasted trend:
Improving
Uruguay has experienced one of the few successful transitions to good governance in contemporary times and is still on an upward trend. Its positive evolution has started with its democratization, but the last 10 years have also seen all IPI components progress well. It is on top of the region where judicial independence and administrative simplicity are concerned, although there is some room to progress on transparency still. The most impressive development, however, is in e-participation, with an increasing number of e-citizens and smart government policies to offer e-services to reduce informality and promote good governance. This is a country from which many lessons can be learned.
Components |
2007/8 |
2020 |
Trendline |
|
Budget Transparency |
|
|
|
|
Administrative Burden |
6.89 |
9.07 |
|
1 |
Judicial Independence |
6.75 |
7.47 |
|
0 |
Press Freedom |
7.3 |
7.84 |
|
0 |
E-Citizenship |
3.1 |
6.07 |
|
1 |
No Forecast data for Uruguay