Transparency International Releases 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index

On February 21, 2018, Transparency International (“TI”) released its 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”), which ranks countries and territories by their perceived levels of public-sector corruption.  The latest CPI figures show that China slightly improved in both score and ranking, with a score of 41 out of 100 (where 0 represents most corrupt and 100 represents least corrupt) and a ranking of 77 out of 180 countries and territories indexed.  In the Asia and Pacific regions, China ranks the 12th among all 35 indexed countries/territories, before India and after Vanuatu.