BERLIN: Pakistan has witnessed improvement by two points and has moved to 116th position in Transparency International’s 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index.
According to the report, Pakistan scored 32 of 100 in 2016 as compared to 30 points in the previous year.
The watchdog uses data from institutions, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank and business school IMD, to compile the perceptions of the scale of public sector corruption. The score runs from zero, which is highly corrupt, to 100, which is very clean.
Following is a list of the top and bottom ranked nations – plus 10 key economies in the mid-range that were featured on the index.
Top 10: New Zealand 90 points, Denmark 90, Finland 89, Sweden 88, Switzerland 86, Norway 85, Singapore 84, Netherlands 83, Canada 82, Germany 81, Luxembourg 81 and United Kingdom 81
In the middle: United States 74, Japan 72, France 69, Hungary 48, Romania 48, Turkey 41, Brazil 40, China 40, India 40 and Russia 29
At the bottom: Venezuela 17, Iraq 17, Afghanistan 15, Libya 14, Yemen 14, Sudan 14, Syria 13, North Korea 12, South Sudan 11 and Somalia 10
Corruption in Pakistan has declined over the past year, a Transparency International report read on Wednesday. Pakistan fared better than most of its South Asian counterparts, coming in second after China in reducing corruption.
Each year Transparency International scores countries on how corrupt their public sectors are seen after capturing the informed views of analysts, business people and experts in countries around the world.
