Armenia has placed 95 among 168 countries by Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015, falling by one position over its standing in 2014, Varuzhan Hoktanyan, the Executive Director of the Transparency International Anticorruption Center, said on Wednesday. Nepal failed to improve both country wise ranking and score.
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Overall, the index – a closely watched global barometer – found that public-sector corruption was still a major problem around the world but more countries are improving than worsening.
An image from the Corruption Perceptions Index shows the US with a score of 76, on a scale of 0-100.
India’s ranking in the list of 168 countries marks an improvement by nine points as its position in 2014 was 85.
The report noted that in India and Sri Lanka, a host of governments came to power on anti-corruption platforms past year. Countries scores can be helped by open government where the public can hold leaders to account, while a poor score is a sign of prevalent bribery, lack of punishment for corruption and public institutions that dont respond to citizens needs.
Two thirds of the states included garnered less than 50 points, with the direst situations in Somalia, Afghanistan and North Korea.
According to the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, the United States and United Kingdom have reached their best rankings ever. This year Finland ranks just behind Denmark as the world’s second-least corrupt nation.
The release also said, The big decliners in the past 4 years include Libya, Australia, Brazil, Spain and Turkey.
The unfolding Petrobras scandal brought people into the streets in 2015 and the start of judicial process may help Brazil stop corruption. That’s one point higher than last year, but the score has basically remained at the same level for seven straight years since 2008.
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TI picked out Ghana – which has been rocked by an undercover film showing judges allegedly taking bribes – as a pocket of hope where activists “worked hard to drive out the corrupt”.
