Barbados vs Ireland: Legislative Corruption Score

Barbados
1.67
in 2025
Ireland
1.66
in 2025
Barbados rank
20th
Ireland rank
23rd

Legislative Corruption Score over time

  • Barbados
  • Ireland
0.50.7511.21.51.8190019622025

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 1.67 against 1.66 in Ireland, a difference of 0.008.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 107 shared years of data; in 1919 it was Ireland ahead.

Barbados ranks 20th and Ireland ranks 23rd of 174 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Legislative Corruption Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
174 places, 17,541 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed

Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent to which members of the legislature abuse their position for financial gain, such as bribes, government contracts, future employment, or stealing from the state. Higher scores mean less corruption. A score of 0 is approximately the average across all countries and years.