Baku/25.01.22/Turan: On January 25, the international human rights organization Transparency International (TI) released its annual report for 2021, which presents the level of public perception of corruption in the public sector in 180 countries, DW reports. Azerbaijan confidently maintains 128th place in the index of corruption along with seven other countries (30 points). The country has been implicated in several corruption scandals in Europe related to attempts to bribe politicians, as well as money laundering of top management. The exception was 2018, when the level of corruption dropped to 25 points.
Among the post-Soviet countries, Turkmenistan is the leader - 169th place (13 points). Tajikistan ranks 150th (25 points); Kyrgyzstan erankls 147th (27 points);140th - Uzbekistan (28 points); Ukraine ranks 122nd (32 points), Moldova -105th (36 points), Kazakhstan 102nd e (37 points), Belarus - 82nd (41 points), Armenia - 58th (49 points), Georgia - 45th (55 points), Latvia - 36th (59 points), Lithuania - 34th (61 points), and Estonia - 13th (74 points). Thus, Georgia and the Baltic countries have overcome the threshold of 50 points.
Transparency International experts in 2021 considered Denmark, New Zealand and Finland to be the least corrupt in the perception of their population. Each of them scored 88 points. They are followed by Singapore, Sweden and Norway (85). Next come Switzerland (84), the Netherlands (82) and Luxembourg (81). After him - Germany, which moved from 9th to 10th place with 80 points.
And at the very bottom of the list are South Sudan (180th place with 11 points), Somalia - at 179th and Syria - at 178th place (13 points each).
The Corruption Perception Index has been compiled annually since 1995 on the basis of data from surveys conducted among experts and in the business community.
Surveys are conducted by independent organizations. Based on this information, the countries of the world are ranked on a scale from 0 to 100 points. Zero indicates the highest level of perceived corruption, and one hundred the lowest. As noted in the TI report, two-thirds of the countries surveyed failed to score the required minimum of 50 points, meaning "absolutely clean", and have serious problems with corruption.—0—
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