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As the movement of performance evaluation prevails in governments and public sector, the more outside evaluators such as professors, accountants and consultants have been involved in the evaluation process. In this respect, we have much doubts whether the evaluators have the evaluation ethics. With these research questions in mind, we aim to review and compare the ethical principles and evaluation standards of USA, UK, France, Canada and Australia. This article shows that evaluation ethics have been adopted to improve the quality and the usefulness of evaluation and the establishment movement led by the evaluation communities of each countries have reflected the professionalization of evaluation. We found evaluation ethics have some limitations, of which the compliance of ethical principles and evaluation standards are most important. In this regard, we propose some recommendations such as improvement of the sensitivity of evaluation ethics, establishment and execution of ethical principle and evaluation standards, institutionalization and enforcement of the ethical program, and professionalization of evaluation. We expect this article would trigger the researches on the evaluation ethics.