I saw an article in the newspaper today about the release of the 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index by the organisation Transparency International. The reason it was in the paper was because New Zealand is (again) the least-corrupt country on Earth. Yay for us.
The link to the site is here: Corruption Perceptions Index 2017
This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index highlights that the majority of countries are making little or no progress in ending corruption, while further analysis shows journalists and activists in corrupt countries risking their lives every day in an effort to speak out.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. This year, the index found that 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.
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).
Since 2012, several countries significantly improved their index score, including Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and the United Kingdom, while several countries declined, including Syria, Yemen and Australia.
There is a table on the page with a list of all the countries and territories and their ratings for the years 2017 back to 2012 (New Zealand and Denmark have been in the top two places every year, often with matching ratings, although this year's ratings for the two countries are lower than all the preceding years - 89 and 88 this year versus 90 or 91 in other years, and 92 in the one year that Denmark was at top place).
The link to the site is here: Corruption Perceptions Index 2017
This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index highlights that the majority of countries are making little or no progress in ending corruption, while further analysis shows journalists and activists in corrupt countries risking their lives every day in an effort to speak out.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. This year, the index found that 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.
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).
Since 2012, several countries significantly improved their index score, including Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and the United Kingdom, while several countries declined, including Syria, Yemen and Australia.
There is a table on the page with a list of all the countries and territories and their ratings for the years 2017 back to 2012 (New Zealand and Denmark have been in the top two places every year, often with matching ratings, although this year's ratings for the two countries are lower than all the preceding years - 89 and 88 this year versus 90 or 91 in other years, and 92 in the one year that Denmark was at top place).
