In 2025, Brazil repeated its worst position in the IPC (Perception Index), from the NGO Transparency International. The country ranked 107th out of 182 nations and territories evaluated, with 35 points on a scale of 0 to 100 — the higher the score, the greater the perception of integrity.
In relation to 2024, when the country recorded 34 points (the worst score in the historical series), there was an increase of one point, a variation considered statistically insignificant by the organization and which indicates stagnation. The position in the ranking remained the same.
The score leaves Brazil below the global average (42 points) and the average for the Americas (also 42).
In the historical series, comparable from 2012, Brazil’s best scores were recorded in 2012 and 2014 (43 points). The worst, in 2024 (34), 2018 and 2019 (35) and 2023 (36).
Sri Lanka also got 35 points. Argentina, Belize and Ukraine were one point above. Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, Laos, Malawi, Nepal and Sierra Leone were one point below Brazil.
The top three in the ranking were Denmark (89 points), Finland (88) and Singapore (84). At the other end are Somalia and South Sudan (9 points each) and Venezuela (10).
The index is constructed from up to 13 independent indicators based on the perception of experts, researchers and executives about corruption in the public service. Inappropriate behaviors considered in the analysis include bribery, embezzlement of public funds, use of public office for private gain and nepotism.
The executive director of Transparency International in Brazil, Bruno Brandão, said that Brazil “shocked the world with cases of macro-corruption on an unprecedented scale, such as Master, widespread impunity even for confessed corrupt people and demoralizing conduct by its own ministers (Supreme Federal Court)”.
In parallel to the IPC, the organization launched the Retrospective 2025 report, which highlights what it classifies as the worsening of the infiltration of organized crime in the Brazilian State through two sectors: the financial system and the legal profession.
The document cites as negative highlights in the Executive the government’s response to the fraud scheme at the INSS (National Social Security Institute) and what it considers as the president’s (PT) silence on corruption — in 230 statements in 2025, the president mentioned the word “corruption” only 13 times and, according to the entity, most of them to mock accusations.
In the Legislature, the organization questions the growth in the volume of parliamentary amendments, in addition to changes to the Clean Record Law that allow for the early return of convicts to elections.
In the Judiciary, the report highlights the case and suspicions about the ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) and. Regarding Moraes, he cites the R$129 million contract between the bank and his wife’s law firm.
Regarding Toffoli, it is stated that the minister requested the report on the case, decreed secrecy and traveled on a private jet with a lawyer from one of the bank’s directors, in addition to revelations about his family’s real estate business involving contributions of funds linked to Master and JBS.
Among the positive points, the report lists Operation Hidden Carbon, launched in August 2025, which investigates the activities of the (First Command of the Capital) in businesses in the formal economy, including the financial market.
The action was classified as a paradigm shift in the use of financial intelligence against organized crime.
It also mentions holding political and military leaders responsible for attacks on democracy, referring to the conviction of the former president (PL) and allies for the 2022 coup plot.
The report also cites as positive decisions by the STF to expand control over amendments and the rejection of the so-called Blindagem PEC in the Senate.
