Pakistan ranked 120 Out of 180 Corruption Index
Berlin-based non-profit releases the index every year, ranking 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
Balochistan24 web desk:
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was on Thursday ranked 120 out of 180 countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019, according to a report released by Transparency International (TI), an international non-governmental organization based in Berlin.
CPI uses a scale of 0 to 100 to rank nations, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. The score of Pakistan – 32/100 – was well below the CPI average of 43 for the year 2019. However, TI said that more than two thirds of the countries on the list scored below 50 on the index this year.
The Berlin-based non-profit releases the index every year, ranking 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and business people. Pakistan was ranked at the 117th place for the years 2017 and 2018.
The country scored 33/100 on the CPI in 2018 and 32/100 in 2017. Although the score of Pakistan on the index has not changed much compared to the past year, the changes in the CPI score of other countries on the list resulted in Pakistan falling down the ranking.
