Hong Kong has been consistently ranked as one of the least corrupt places in the world

World Competitiveness Yearbook 2025,
International Institute for Management Development (IMD)

• The Yearbook measures the competitiveness of an economy by using over 300 criteria grouped under four main factors, namely Economic Performance, Government Efficiency, Business Efficiency and Infrastructure.

• Hong Kong is ranked the 3rd most competitive among 69 economies in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2025.

  Ranking	Economy	Score*
  1	Switzerland	100
  2	Singapore	99.44
  3	Hong Kong	99.22
  4	Denmark	97.51
  5	UAE	96.09
  11	Canada	88.73
  16	China	82.13
  18	Australia	78.36

  * on a scale of 0-100, with 100 being the best performance

• Hong Kong's ranking of "Bribery and corruption do not exist" as one of the criteria under the competitiveness factor "Government Efficiency" is the 4th in the world, and the 1st in Asia-Pacific region.

• Source: https://www.imd.org/wcc