2026-03-05 · percent of countries
Resource-rich autocracies score poorly on CPI
Oil and mining rents correlate with perception gaps.
Policy grids compress billions of people into equal squares — the shock is in the share, not the cell. This grid divides country count (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Resource-dependent low CPI, Asia & Pacific, and 2 more groups — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of countries (0.1% of country count) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Corruption Perceptions Index put Asia & Pacific at 39.5% of country count and Resource-dependent low CPI at 24% — about 100 percent of countries in this edition's rounding.
Transparency International CPI via Our World in Data.
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-03-05-pol-cpi-resource-curse