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Global corruption perception index
February 23 , 2018
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- India has been ranked 81st in the global corruption perception index for 2017, which was recently released by Transparency International.
- The report also named India among the worst offenders in terms of graft and press freedom in the Asia Pacific region.
- In 2016, India was ranked at the 79th position among 176 countries.
- The index ranks 180 countries and territories on the basis of their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
- The index uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
- India’s score in the latest ranking, however, remained unchanged at 40. In 2015, the score was 38.
- New Zealand was ranked first with a score of 89 followed by Denmark at the 2nd position with a score of 88.
- Three nations -Finland, Norway and Switzerland were tied for the 3rd position, as they all had the same score of 85.
- Somalia at 180th position was the lowest ranked nation in the corruption index with a score of just 9.
- Among the South Asian nations, Bhutan was the highest ranked at the 26th position with a score of 67.
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