Sri Lanka has dropped two places to be ranked 115 in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for the year 2023.
As per the index released by Transparency International, out of 180 countries, Sri Lanka has obtained a score of 34/100.
Sri Lanka has been ranked 115 alongside Ecuador, Indonesia, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.
Denmark leads the corruption perceptions index, followed by Finland, New Zealand, Norway, and Singapore.
Somalia, Venezuela, Syria, South Sudan and Yemen take the bottom spots in the index.
The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows that corruption is thriving across the world.
The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the globe by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Over two-thirds of countries score below 50 out of 100, which strongly indicates that they have serious corruption problems.
The global average is stuck at only 43, while the vast majority of countries have made no progress or declined in the last decade.
What is more, 23 countries fell to their lowest scores to date this year.
Full report : https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2023/index/lka (NewsWire)