Cambodia vs Laos: Legislative Corruption Score

Cambodia
-1.41
in 2025
Laos
-1.39
in 2025
Cambodia rank
142nd
Laos rank
141st

Legislative Corruption Score over time

  • Cambodia
  • Laos
-3-2-101194719862025

How they compare

Laos currently reports -1.39 against -1.41 in Cambodia, a difference of 0.026.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1947 it was Cambodia ahead.

Cambodia ranks 142nd and Laos ranks 141st 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.