Corruption Perception Index 2015

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On 27 January 2016, the Transparency International issued 21stedition of Corruption Perception Index (CPI 2015).
The Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in 168 countries and territories.
The marks were awarded on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
The index was topped by Denmark with a score of 91 that is referred to as the most honest country.
It is followed by Finland (Score-90), Sweden (Score-89) and New Zealand (Score-88) raked at second and third and fourth place respectively.
This year the two countries Netherlands (score-87) and Norway (score-87) jointly secured the fifth position.
North Korea and Somalia the worst performers (167th), scoring just 8 points each.
Afghanistan (Score 11), Sudan (score 12), South Sudan (score 15), Angola (score 15) and Libya (score 16) are ranked at 166th, 165th, 163th, 161th place respectively.
India with a score of 38 has been ranked 76th out of 168 nations in CPI-2015.
Last year (CPI2014) India with a score of 38 was ranked 85th out of 175 nations.
In CPI-2015 among India’s neighboring countries Bhutan ranked 27th (score -65), China and Sri Lanka are ranked 83 (Score -37), Pakistan 117th (score 30) Nepal 130th (score 27) and Bangladesh (score 25).
It may be mentioned that the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) has been released annually since 1995.
Overall, two-thirds of the 168 countries on the 2015 index scored below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean)showed that people working together can succeed in the battle against corruption