The index uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
India has for the first time secured a place among the top 100 out of 167 countries ranked for their progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a report published on Tuesday. According to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network's 10th and latest Sustainable Development Report (SDR), India ranks 99th on the 2025 SDG Index with a score of 67, while China ranks 49th with 74.4 and the US 44th with 75.2 points.
The abuse of power, secret dealings and bribery continue to ravage societies around the world, warns Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2013.
Corruption continues to ravage societies around the world, reveals Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2012.
The richest countries are also the cleanest, while the poorest are perceived as the most corrupt.
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries across the world.
India continues to be among the world's most corrupt nations.
Public outcry at corruption, impunity and economic instability sent shockwaves around the world in 2011.
Public outcry at corruption, impunity and economic instability sent shockwaves around the world in 2011.
In an interview with Rediff.com, Transparency International explains how the organisation collates its information, assigns ranks to various nations and tries to battle global corruption.
The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories according to their perceived levels of public sector corruption. It is an aggregate indicator that combines different sources of information about corruption, making it possible to compare countries.
Denmark along with two other countries have been ranked as the world's least corrupt countries.
India's score is a result of an average of 13 studies including World Bank's Country Performance and Institutional Assessment, World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey and Global Insight Country Risk Ratings, among others.
Corruption continues to be the bane of modern India and threatens to derail its rapidly growing economy.
"Government is committed to implement its policy of Zero tolerance against corruption. It is moving progressively to eradicate corruption by improving transparency and accountability," the Minister of State for the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Suresh Pachouri said in Lok Sabha. "Measures for strengthening the Anti-Corruption Bureau in various states are taken by the concerned governments," he told the lower house.
Corruption is much higher in Pakistan which occupies 140th place, a little below Iran, Libya and Nepal which are ranked 133, 134 and 135 respectively. Meanwhile, China which was ranked a joint 72 with India in 2007, slided a step down to occupy a place above its neighbour this year.
The report by KPMG, titled India Fraud Survey Report 2008, has effectively castigated India Inc, both at the employee and the management levels, suggesting a lack of morality at both levels. Strangely, India Inc seems to have swallowed these findings without any remorse or response.
In world rankings, India came down from 72nd to 85th slot in a list of 180 countries.
We as Indians have a lot to be thankful for in terms of the progress that has been made towards a cleaner public life.
'Not one single country, anywhere in the world, is corruption-free,' the report said.
India is ranked 90th on a list of 146 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index, according to Transparency International ratings. India was ranked 83rd last year.
Contrary to popular perception that corruption was on the rise in India, an international organisation on Tuesday said it had in fact decreased in the past one year and placed the country 88th among 159 nations, down by two ranks.
Five years after demonetisation, which sought to curb black money and reduce cash circulation in the economy, 70 per cent of respondents said they paid a large component of the total payment towards a real estate transaction in cash. About 16 per cent said they paid over half the amount in cash, observes Shyamal Majumdar.
The bench observed that citizens should raise their voice against the menace of corruption and refuse to pay taxes by launching a non-cooperation movement.
People in Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, West Bengal, Kerala, Goa and Odisha reported low instances of corruption, while Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Punjab had higher occurrences of corruption.
A report by the Azim Premji University showed that during the pandemic 270 million Indians were pushed into poverty. Meaning that they were not poor according to the government poverty line before, but have become now. Aakar Patel mulls on the state of the nation as the Modi government enters its eighth year.
China moved to 100th place, down from 80th last year, while Pakistan and Nepal were at 126th position. Bangladesh was 145th and Bhutan 30th in the ranking.
Some might contend that a candidate for being termed the most corrupt (or corrupting) country in the world is Switzerland.
For the CBI, crimes are likely to become more innovative, complex, driven increasingly by technology and transcending geographical boundaries, says Anil Kumar Sinha.
The government has made it much harder for tycoons to get special dispensations from Delhi
Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption
'The Modi government has been taking credit for improvement in respect of the ease of doing business in India.' 'But when I look at the scams I cannot help feeling that it is too easy to do business with banks in India, if one is a Harshad Mehta, Vijay Mallya or Nirav Modi and their tribe,' says former Union home secretary Madhav Godbole.
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