India slipped on the corruption perceptions index (CPI) for 2023 to 93 as against 85 it scored for 2022.
Key points
- The report was published by Transparency International. Denmark (90), Finland (87) and Norway (84) top the CPI ranking.
- India’s overall score was 39 in 2023 while it was 40 in 2022.
- 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, observed the report.
- However, India’s ranking is better than its neighbours. In South Asia, both Pakistan (133) and Sri Lanka (115) grapple with their respective debt burdens and ensuing political instability.
- Somalia (11), Venezuela (13), Syria (13), South Sudan (13) and Yemen (16) take the bottom spots in the index.
- The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption drawn from experts and business people.
- On a scale of 0 to 100 on which countries are judged, 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
