Mali vs Zambia: Media Corruption Score

Mali
0.641
in 2025
Zambia
0.697
in 2025
Mali rank
82nd
Zambia rank
80th

Media Corruption Score over time

  • Mali
  • Zambia
-3-2-101190019622025

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 0.697 against 0.641 in Mali, a difference of 0.056.

That makes Zambia's figure about 1.1 times Mali's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 115 shared years of data; in 1911 it was Zambia ahead.

Mali ranks 82nd and Zambia ranks 80th of 175 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Media Corruption Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
175 places, 18,887 data points, 1900–2025
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Gauges the frequency with which journalists, publishers, or broadcasters accept payments to modify news content, indicating the integrity (or corruption) of the media sphere.