Corruption perception index 2020
29th January, 2021
Context: India's rank is 86 out of 180 nations with a score of 40.
About:
- For 2020, Transparency International (TI)’s corruption perception index was released.
- It ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
- India’s rank has slipped six places to 86th among 180 countries in a corruption perception index (CPI) in 2020.
- India is still very low on corruption
- This year, New Zealand and Denmark were ranked at first position with scores of 88.
- Somalia and South Sudan were ranked lowest at 179th position with scores of 12.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/indias-rank-slips-to-86th-in-corruption-perception-index-2020-7165607/