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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/