Afghanistan Ranked 4th in World’s Most Corrupt Countries
The Transparency International corruption perception index ranks Afghanistan as the 4th most corrupt country in the world.
The Transparency International corruption perception index ranks Afghanistan as the 4th most corrupt country in the world.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
This year, New Zealand and Denmark rank highest with scores of 89 and 88 respectively. Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively.
The best performing region is Western Europe with an average score of 66, while the worst performing regions are Sub-Saharan Africa (average score 32) and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (average score 34).
Since 2012, several countries significantly improved their index score, including Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and the United Kingdom, while several countries declined, including Syria, Yemen and Australia.
Yet, according to economic experts, a lot of reports have been published in recent years but the Afghan government has never taken practical steps, but has provided grounds for corruption.
