Romania vs Ukraine: Media Corruption Score

Romania
-0.534
in 2025
Ukraine
-0.444
in 2025
Romania rank
139th
Ukraine rank
136th

Media Corruption Score over time

  • Romania
  • Ukraine
-3-2-101190019622025

How they compare

Ukraine currently reports -0.444 against -0.534 in Romania, a difference of 0.09.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Romania ahead.

Romania ranks 139th and Ukraine ranks 136th 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.