Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer 2013 reveals that political parties, Parliament, the judiciary and the military are the most corrupt institutions in Portugal.

  

Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer 2013 reveals that political parties, Parliament, the judiciary and the military are the most corrupt institutions in Portugal.

 

Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index scored Portugal at 57 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Portugal ranked 43rd among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. 

 

For comparison with regional scores, the best score among Western European and European Union countries was 90, the average score was 64 and the worst score was 41. For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 8 (ranked 180).