Every dollar protected by integrity is a dollar invested in our future.
Let’s move beyond “business as usual” and lead the way in ethical procurement. Below is a real-time estimate of what corruption is costing global public procurement this year — and what a small improvement in integrity could save.
Estimated cost of corruption · public procurement · year to date
Counting since 00:00, 1 January — resets automatically each new year.
What a 1% improvement in public procurement integrity could save every year — redirected toward schools, hospitals, and infrastructure instead of lost to corruption.
Methodology
How this estimate is calculated
Governments worldwide spend an estimated USD 13 trillion annually on public procurement — roughly 15% of global GDP (World Bank; joint Multilateral Development Bank statement, 2024).
UNODC and OECD research estimates that between 10% and 25% of procurement budgets may be lost to corruption and fraud — consistent with OECD’s own estimate that up to USD 2 trillion in procurement costs could be lost to corruption globally.
This tracker applies a conservative 10% rate — the lower bound of the commonly cited range — to the USD 13 trillion base, giving an estimated USD 1.3 trillion lost to corruption in public procurement per year. The 1% improvement figure applies a 1-percentage-point reduction in that rate to the same USD 13 trillion base.
Please note
This is an illustrative, order-of-magnitude estimate built from published research, not an audited measurement of actual losses. It is intended to communicate the scale of the challenge, not to represent a precise or official figure.
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