Control of corruption during each government's tenure

27 governments, ranked by how the control of corruption changed from their first day in office, next to the European Union over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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#	Government	Country	In office	Total	vs EU	Per year
1	Donald Tusk	Poland	16 Nov 2007 – 22 Sep 2014	+9.4 points 2007 → 2014	+11.5 points EU −2.2 points	+1.3 points/yr
2	Andrius Kubilius	Lithuania	26 Nov 2008 – 22 Nov 2012	+7.8 points 2008 → 2012	+8.6 points EU −0.9 points	+1.9 points/yr
3	Alexis Tsipras	Greece	26 Jan 2015 – 8 Jul 2019	+7.3 points 2014 → 2019	+5.4 points EU +1.9 points	+1.5 points/yr
4	Bohuslav Sobotka	Czechia	17 Jan 2014 – 6 Dec 2017	+7.0 points 2013 → 2017	+6.1 points EU +0.8 points	+1.7 points/yr
5	Krišjānis Kariņš	Latvia	23 Jan 2019 – 15 Sep 2023	+5.2 points 2018 → 2023	+4.7 points EU +0.5 points	+1.0 points/yr
6	Jüri Ratas	Estonia	23 Nov 2016 – 26 Jan 2021	+5.2 points 2016 → 2020	+4.7 points EU +0.5 points	+1.3 points/yr
7	Andrus Ansip	Estonia	13 Apr 2005 – 26 Mar 2014	+5.1 points 2004 → 2013	+6.4 points EU −1.2 points	+0.6 points/yr
8	Wolfgang Schüssel	Austria	4 Feb 2000 – 11 Jan 2007 from 2000	+5.1 points 2000 → 2006	+4.6 points EU +0.6 points	+0.9 points/yr
9	Enda Kenny	Ireland	9 Mar 2011 – 14 Jun 2017	+4.8 points 2010 → 2016	+4.5 points EU +0.3 points	+0.8 points/yr
10	Miro Cerar	Slovenia	18 Sep 2014 – 17 Aug 2018	+4.7 points 2014 → 2018	+3.0 points EU +1.7 points	+1.2 points/yr

Showing 10 of 99 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); the European Union is measured over the same months. Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, higher is better · World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores · country data · as of Sep 2026.