Pakistan Corruption
Pakistan drops 16 places in Corruption Perceptions Index
Islamabad: Pakistan has dropped 16 spots to rank 140 out of 180 nations on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2021 that was released by Transparency International recently.
As per the details, Pakistan’s score dropped by three points to 28 on the global corruption index, reports The News International.
The country scored 31 points last year.
Describing the state of Pakistan, the official website of the organization said: " Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index, Transparency International’s flagship research product, has become the leading global indicator of public sector corruption."
"The index offers an annual snapshot of the relative degree of corruption by ranking countries and territories from all over the globe. In 2012, Transparency International revised the methodology used to construct the index to allow for comparison of scores from one year to the next," it said.
This year, the top countries are Denmark, Finland and New Zealand, each with a score of 88. Norway (85), Singapore (85), Sweden (85), Switzerland (84), the Netherlands (82), Luxembourg (81) and Germany (80) complete the top 10.
South Sudan (11), Syria (13) and Somalia (13) remain at the bottom of the index.
Countries experiencing armed conflict or authoritarianism tend to earn the lowest scores, including Venezuela (14), Afghanistan (16), North Korea (16), Yemen (16), Equatorial Guinea (17), Libya (17) and Turkmenistan (19).
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