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31/01/24 06:40 AM IST

Corruption perception Index

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  • India ranked 93 out of 180 countries on the corruption perceptions index for 2023.
  • In 2023, India's overall score was 39 while in 2022, it was 40. India's rank in 2022 was 85.
Major highlights
  • In South Asia, both Pakistan (133) and Sri Lanka (115) grapple with their respective debt burdens and ensuing political instability.
  • However, the two countries have strong judicial oversight, which is helping to keep the government in check.
  • China (76) has made headlines with its aggressive anti-corruption crackdown by punishing more than 3.7 million public officials for corruption over the last decade.
  • Countries with continued high scores, such as New Zealand (3) and Singapore (5), maintain their positions at the top of the index globally, followed closely by other countries with stronger corruption control mechanisms, such as Australia (14), Hong Kong (14), Japan (16), Bhutan (26), Taiwan (28) and South Korea (32).
  • The bottom of the index includes fragile states with authoritarian regimes, including North Korea (172) and Myanmar (162).
  • Afghanistan (162) continues to face one of the worst humanitarian crises in history.
  • Seventy-one per cent of the countries across Asia and the Pacific have a CPI score below the regional average score of 45 and the global average of 43 out of 100.
  • These weak scores reflect the lack of delivery by elected officials on anti-corruption agendas, together with crackdowns on organised civil society and attacks on freedoms of press, assembly and association.
Source- Times of India





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