The Corruption Perception Index (hosted by Transparency International), ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
This year, New Zealand and Denmark rank highest with scores of 89 and 88
respectively. Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with scores of
14, 12 and 9 respectively. The best performing region is Western Europe
with an average score of 66. The worst performing regions are
Sub-Saharan Africa (average score 32) and Eastern Europe and Central
Asia (average score 34). More than two-thirds
of countries score below 50, with an average score of 43. Unfortunately,
compared to recent years, this poor performance is nothing new.
Those that significantly reduced corruption are Belarus (+13), Greece (+12), South Sudan (+12), Guyana (+10), Latvia (+9), Senegal (+9), North Korea (+9), United Kingdom (+8), Seychelles (+8), Czech Republic (+8), Italy (+8) and Laos (+8). Of those, most countries were starting with a low base, so improvement wasn't difficult in most cases. Three stand-outs were the United Kingdom (now equal 8th), Latvia (now 40th) and the Czech Republic (now 57th), which are now among the 30 percent of countries in the world that score better than 5/10.
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