Korea's Corruption Perception Index ranked 30th in the World, the highest ever...As expected, first place is
Feb 12, 2025
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Compared to the previous year, the score increased by one point and the ranking rose two notches to an all-time high.
North Korea fell two points during the same period to stay in the bottom 170.
Transparency International recently announced the ranking of the 2024 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by country.
The corruption perception index is a ranking on the perception of integrity by country, which compares the degree of how corrupt public officials and politicians feel and ranks them by country. Based on 13 independent data, the score is scored from 0 to 100, which means that the higher the score, the higher the transparency.
In this evaluation, the average score of 180 global countries was 43 points.
Denmark topped the list for the seventh year in a row with 90 points. Finland (88 points) and Singapore (84 points) followed.
Fourth-ranked New Zealand, which has 83 points, has been pushed out of the top three for the first time since 2012. Luxembourg (81 points), Norway (81 points), Switzerland (81 points), Sweden (80 points), the Netherlands (78 points), Australia (77 points), Iceland (77 points), and Ireland (77 points) were also included in the top group.
The lowest ranking country was South Sudan (8 points), which is in conflict.
Subsequently, Somalia (9 points), Venezuela (10 points), Syria (12 points), Equatorial Guinea (13 points), Eritrea (13 points), Libya (13 points), Yemen (13 points), Nicaragua (14 points), Sudan (15 points), and North Korea (15 points) were included in the lower group.
Russia, which is at war with Ukraine, ranked 154th with 22 points, while Israel, which is at odds with Palestinian militant Hamas, ranked 30th with 64 points. China ranked 76th with 43 points, Japan ranked 20th with 71 points, Taiwan ranked 25th with 67 points, and the United States ranked 28th with 65.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
