Armenia’s CPI 2025 score decreased by one point compared to the previous year, falling to 46 points on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). In the CPI ranking covering 182 countries in 2025, Armenia shares 65th–69th places with Kuwait, Montenegro, Namibia, and Senegal (in 2024, Armenia shared 63rd–64th places among 180 countries).
Armenia’s CPI 2025 score (46) is the arithmetic mean of the scores from six sources used in its assessment. These sources are:
Bertelsmann Foundation’s 2026 Transformation Index (51 points, unchanged from 2024);
Freedom House’s Nations in Transit 2024 – Corruption subindex (44 points, unchanged from 2024); Global Insight Country Risk Ratings 2024 (46 points, unchanged from 2024);
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Political Risk Services International Country Risk Guide 2025 (33 points, unchanged from 2024); Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project 2025 Publication (50 points, unchanged from 2024);
World Economic Forum’s Executive Opinion Survey 2025 (53 points, compared to 56 in 2024).
Figure 1 presents Armenia’s CPI scores for the period 2015–2025.
Figure 2 presents the 2025 CPI scores of the Council of Europe member states, including Armenia. As shown in the figure, among the 42 Council of Europe countries for which the CPI was calculated in 2025, Armenia, with its 2025 CPI score, shares 30th–31st places with Montenegro. Moreover, among the 27 EU member states, only three countries—Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary—have CPI scores lower than Armenia’s.
This represents a rather modest performance, which also suggests that anti-corruption reforms have not yet delivered the results expected by businesspeople and experts, whose perceptions are captured by the Corruption Perceptions Index.
According to Transparency International’s regional classification, Armenia is included in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region, whose ranking table based on CPI scores is presented in Figure 3.
As shown in the figure, Armenia ranks second among countries in the region, following Georgia (50), which ranks 53rd–55th. As in the previous four years, Armenia’s CPI score in 2025 (46) remains higher than the global CPI average, which declined from 43 to 42, marking the lowest global average of the past decade. Armenia’s score also exceeds the 2025 CPI scores of its neighboring countries (with the exception of Georgia) as well as those of the other Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states—Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Among Armenia’s neighbors, Turkey (31) shares 124th–129th places, Iran (23) ranks 153rd–156th, and Azerbaijan (30) ranks 130th–134th. Among EAEU countries, Kazakhstan (38) ranks 96th–98th, Belarus (31) shares 124th–129th places, Kyrgyzstan (26) ranks 142nd–147th, and Russia (22) ranks 157th–160th.
Armine Tokhmakhyan (TI AM)
