Corruption Perceptions Index- 2017

Question- What is India position in ‘Global Corruption Perception Index, 2017’ released by Transparency International on February 21st, 2018?
(a) 80th
(b) 85th
(c) 81st
(d) 75th
Answer- (c) 
Related Facts:

  • On February 21st, 2018 Transparency International released the 23rd Annual Corruption Perception Index, 2017.
  • The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100.
  • In this regard 0 is for highly corrupt and 100 is for very clean.
  • This year, the index found that more than two-thirds of countries score below 50, with an average score of 43.
  • New Zealand (Score-89) is at the top in this year index.
  • New Zealand is followed by Denmark (Score-88), Finland (Score-85), Norway (Score-85) and Switzerland (Score-85) jointly at third position and Singapore (Score-84) and Sweden (Score-84) jointly at sixth place.
  • In this index, Somalia (score 9) is at 180th rank (last), the most corrupt country.
  • In the index prior to Somalia there are South Sudan (Score-12) 179th rank, Syria (Score-14) 178th rank, Afghanistan (Score-15) 177th rank, Yemen (Score-16) and Sudan (Score-16) jointly at175th
  • India is at 81st position in the index-2017 jointly tied with Ghana, Morocco and Turkey (Turkey). The index score of these 4 countries is 40.
  • In last year’s index, India was at the 79th position with a score of 40 jointly with Belarus, Brazil and China.
  • Bhutan (Score-67) 26th, China (Score-41) 77th, Sri Lanka (Score-38) 91st, Pakistan (Score-32) 117th, Nepal (Score-31) 122th and Bangladesh (Score- 28) are at 143rd
  • In this index other developed countries of the world are ranked as United Kingdom (Score-82) 8th, Germany (Score-81) 12th, US (Score-75) 16th, and Japan (Score-73) 20th.
  • It is known that this index is being released annually since 1995.
  • Transparency International is an international non-governmental organization which emphasizes corruption prevention etc.
  • Its headquarters is in Berlin, Germany.

Reference:                
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017