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
According to the report the Seychelles remains the least corrupt country in Africa with a score of 71 while Denmark also maintained its position as the least corrupt in the world with a score of 90 out of 180
On the other hand the CPI also shows that corruption is thriving worldwide The report states that more than two thirds of countries have a score lower than 50 out of 100 indicating significant corruption issues
In Africa there have been mixed results While some countries show significant improvement others experienced stagnation maintaining the regions poor performance with an unaltered regional score of 33 out of 100 Ninety percent of countries in Sub Saharan Africa scored under 50
Despite improvement in some countries Sub Saharan Africa maintains the lowest average at 33 with the lowest ranked country being Somalia with a ranking of 11 with no improvement This can be attributed to the fact that democracy and the rule of law are under pressure the report reads
The global average remains low at just 43 and most countries havent improved or have even gotten worse over the past ten years Additionally 23 countries hit their lowest corruption scores this year
The global trend of weakening justice systems is reducing accountability for public officials allowing corruption to thrive it reads
