List of Most and the Least corrupt countries and where does India Stand

List of Most and the Least corrupt countries and where does India Stand. Corruption has always been the talking point in the development of a country and is considered as one of the most important benchmark to quantify a country’s development index. Here is a data that shows the list of most and the least corrupt countries and also shows you where does India stand on the corruption list.

List of Most and the Least corrupt countries and where does India Stand

People will ask that how will you quantify corruption or what are the parameters used to judge a country on how corrupt it is? Transparency International is an organisation that calculates the corruption perception index every year and gives the data for the most and the least corrupt country in the world. As per their calculations of the corruption perception index the lower rank countries have badly functioning public institution like Police and judiciary and the anti corruption laws are just on books and their implementation is bad and the higher rank countries on the list enjoy freedom of press and their are less scams and their is equality among people.

Top 10 Least corrupt countries:

2016 Rank	Country	2016 Score	2015 Score	2014 Score	2013 Score	2012 Score
1	Denmark	90	91	92	91	90
2	New Zealand	90	88	91	91	90
3	Finland	89	90	89	89	90
4	Sweden	88	89	87	89	88
5	Switzerland	86	86	86	85	86
6	Norway	85	87	86	86	85
7	Singapore	84	85	84	86	87
8	Netherlands	83	87	83	83	84
9	Canada	82	83	81	81	84
10	Germany	81	81	79	78	79
10	Luxembourg	81	81	82	80	80
10	United Kingdom	81	81	78	76	74
79	India	40	38	38	36	36

Top 10 Most Corrupt Countries:

2016 Rank	Country	2016 Score	2015 Score	2014 Score	2013 Score	2012 Score
176	Somalia	10	8	8	8	8
175	South Sudan	11	15	15	14	N/A
174	North Korea	12	8	8	8	8
173	Syria	13	18	20	17	26
170	Yemen	14	18	19	18	23
170	Libya	14	16	18	15	21
170	Sudan	14	12	11	11	13
169	Afghanistan	15	11	12	8	8
168	Guinea-Bissau	16	17	19	19	25
166	Venezuela	17	17	19	20	19
166	Iraq	17	16	16	16	18
164	Eritrea	18	18	18	20	25
79	India	40	38	38	36	36

Data source: http://www.transparency.org/

List of Most and the Least corrupt countries and where does India Stand

This data for the corruption perception index has been taken out of 176 countries and India ranks at 79 which is nearly around the midpoint and according to the data nearly two third of the countries fall on the list of highly corrupt countries. The least corrupt country in the world is Denmark and the most corrupt country in the world is Somali. India had made a slight progress compared to the data of 2012 in which it had 36 points as now it has 40 points. If India has to make in the top 10 least corrupt countries in the world then a lot has to be done as per the public sector policies and we just hope that next year India would be ranked much higher in the corruption perception index.

Himanshuy.