Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index

Rankings of 180 nations studied by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International for its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, released on Tuesday. The index score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between zero, which is highly corrupt, and 10, which is very clean.

1 Denmark 9.3
2 Sweden 9.3
3 New Zealand 9.3
4 Singapore 9.2
5 Finland 9.0
6 Switzerland 9.0
7 Iceland 8.9
8 Netherlands 8.9
9 Australia 8.7
10 Canada 8.7
11 Luxembourg 8.3
12 Austria 8.1
13 Hong Kong 8.1
14 Germany 7.9
15 Norway 7.9
16 Ireland 7.7
17 United Kingdom 7.7
18 United States 7.3
19 Japan 7.3
20 Belgium 7.3
21 Saint Lucia 7.1
22 Barbados 7.0
23 France 6.9
24 Chile 6.9
25 Uruguay 6.9
26 Slovenia 6.7
27 Estonia 6.6
28 Spain 6.5
29 Qatar 6.5
30 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6.5
31 Cyprus 6.4
32 Portugal 6.1
33 Israel 6.0
34 Dominica 6.0
35 United Arab Emirates 5.9
36 Botswana 5.8
37 Puerto Rico 5.8
38 Malta 5.8
39 Taiwan 5.7
40 South Korea 5.6
41 Mauritius 5.5
42 Oman 5.5
43 Macao 5.4
44 Bahrain 5.4
45 Bhutan 5.2
46 Czech Republic 5.2
47 Malaysia 5.1
48 Costa Rica 5.1
49 Hungary 5.1
50 Jordan 5.1
51 Cape Verde 5.1
52 Slovakia 5.0
53 Latvia 5.0
54 South Africa 4.9
55 Seychelles 4.8
56 Italy 4.8
57 Greece 4.7
58 Turkey 4.6
59 Lithuania 4.6
60 Poland 4.6
61 Namibia 4.5
62 Samoa 4.4
63 Croatia 4.4
64 Tunisia 4.4
65 Kuwait 4.3
66 Cuba 4.3
67 Ghana 3.9
68 Georgia 3.9
69 El Salvador 3.9
70 Romania 3.8
71 Colombia 3.8
72 Bulgaria 3.6
73 FYR Macedonia 3.6
74 Peru 3.6
75 Mexico 3.6
76 China 3.6
77 Suriname 3.6
78 Trinidad and Tobabo 3.6
79 Swaziland 3.6
80 Burkina Faso 3.5
81 Brazil 3.5
82 Saudi Arabia 3.5
83 Thailand 3.5
84 Morocco 3.5
85 Senegal 3.4
86 Panama 3.4
87 Serbia 3.4
88 Montenegro 3.4
89 Madagascar 3.4
90 Albania 3.4
91 India 3.4
92 Algeria 3.2
93 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.2
94 Sri Lanka 3.2
95 Lesotho 3.2
96 Gabon 3.1
97 Mali 3.1
98 Jamaica 3.1
99 Guatemala 3.1
100 Benin 3.1
101 Kiribati 3.1
102 Tanzania 3.0
103 Lebanon 3.0
104 Rwanda 3.0
105 Dominican Republic 3.0
106 Bolivia 3.0
107 Djibouti 3.0
108 Mongolia 3.0
109 Armenia 2.9
110 Belize 2.9
111 Argentina 2.9
112 Vanuatu 2.9
113 Solomon Islands 2.9
114 Moldova 2.9
115 Mauritania 2.8
116 Maldives 2.8
117 Niger 2.8
118 Malawi 2.8
119 Zambia 2.8
120 Egypt 2.8
121 Togo 2.7
122 Vietnam 2.7
123 Nigeria 2.7
124 Sao Tome and Principe 2.7
125 Nepal 2.7
126 Indonesia 2.6
127 Honduras 2.6
128 Ethiopia 2.6
129 Uganda 2.6
130 Guyana 2.6
131 Libya 2.6
132 Eritrea 2.6
133 Mozambique 2.6
134 Nicaragua 2.5
135 Pakistan 2.5
136 Comoros 2.5
137 Ukraine 2.5
138 Paraguay 2.4
139 Liberia 2.4
140 Tonga 2.4
141 Yemen 2.3
142 Cameroon 2.3
143 Iran 2.3
144 Philippines 2.3
145 Kazakhstan 2.2
146 Timor-Leste 2.2
147 Syria 2.1
148 Bangladesh 2.1
149 Russia 2.1
150 Kenya 2.1
151 Laos 2.0
152 Equator 2.0
153 Papua New Guinea 2.0
154 Tajikistan 2.0
155 Central African Republic 2.0
156 Cote d'Ivoire 2.0
157 Belarus 2.0
158 Azerbaijan 1.9
159 Burundi 1.9
160 Congo Republic 1.9
161 Sierra Leone 1.9
162 Venezuela 1.9
163 Guinea-Bissau 1.9
164 Angola 1.9
165 Gambia 1.9
166 Uzbekistan 1.8
167 Turkmenistan 1.8
168 Zimbabwe 1.8
169 Cambodia 1.8
170 Kyrgyzstan 1.8
171 Congo, Democratic Republic 1.7
172 Equatorial Guinea 1.7
173 Guinea 1.6
174 Chad 1.6
175 Sudan 1.6
176 Afghanistan 1.5
177 Haiti 1.4
178 Iraq 1.3
179 Myanmar 1.3
180 Somalia 1.0

The 2008 Corruption Perception Index showed that the Philippines got a score of 2.3 in 2007—down by 0.2% from 2.5 in 2007. This year’s score is the lowest for the country since 1995 when the first CPI was devised as a tool for a country’s resolve to fight corruption. The corruption perception index measures the perception of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and analysts. This year, 180 countries are rated from 0 to 10. A grade of 10 means the country is perceived as very clean while a rating of 0 means the country is perceived as very corrupt.

The Philippines ranked 141st—along with Cameroon, Iran and Yemen—and was behind most of its ASEAN neighbors. Singapore, with a 9.2 rating, was in the 4th place while Malaysia got 5.1 to land on the 47th place. Thailand is in the 80th spot with a rating of 3.5 while Vietnam is in the 121st place with a score of 2.7 Indonesia, which ranked lower than the Philippines last year, was in 126th place with a rating of 2.6. Dolores Espanol, chair of Transparency International-Philippines, said the prevalence of big corruption cases in the previous months was the main reason in the big drop of the Philippines ratings.

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