Informal payments to public officials (% of firms)

Name: Informal payments to public officials (% of firms)
Creator: Enterprise Surveys, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/data
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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About this dataset

Percentage of establishments that consider that firms with characteristics similar to theirs are making informal payments or giving gifts to public officials to "get things done” with regard to customs, taxes, licenses, regulations, services etc.

Columns (4)

countrystringiso3stringyearstringvaluenumber

Sample rows

iso3	year	value	country
AFE	2025	15.29596382196	Africa Eastern and Southern
AFW	2025	20.2939629504318	Africa Western and Central
ARB	2025	16.8557067135944	Arab World
CSS	2025	6.75012145458333	Caribbean small states
CEB	2025	4.20066549002727	Central Europe and the Baltics
EAR	2025	13.1322124663214	Early-demographic dividend
EAS	2025	11.4750982752538	East Asia & Pacific
EAP	2025	15.6683295345111	East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

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