MONITORING (SW) – In its latest Corruption Perception Index, the Transparency International on Thursday ranked Afghanistan as 12th most corrupt country in the world.
The organization’s annual report, released on Thursday, showed Afghanistan on the 165th position ahead of countries like North Korea, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, and others.
Denmark has topped the CPI followed by New Zealand, Finland, Singapore and Sweden.
The report emphasized that Afghanistan has made significant progress in the fight against corruption since the beginning of the year.
The organization stressed that Afghanistan has undergone significant legal and institutional reforms and is currently working on a number of strategies to establish a commission to fight corruption.
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 zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
Like previous years, more than two-thirds of countries score below 50 on this year’s CPI, with an average score of just 43. The data showed that despite some progress, most countries still fail to tackle corruption effectively.
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