Transparency International Releases 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index

Transparency International Releases 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index

February 3, 2019, Covington Alert

On January 29, 2019, Transparency International (“TI”) released its 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”), which ranks countries and territories by their perceived levels of public-sector corruption.  The latest CPI figures show that, despite continuous domestics anti-corruption enforcement, China went down in both score and ranking, with a score of 39 out of 100 (where 0 represents most corrupt and 100 represents least corrupt) and a ranking of 87 out of 180 countries and territories indexed.  In the Asia and Pacific regions, China ranks the 14th among all 35 indexed countries/territories, before Indonesia and after India.