Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), launched today, reveals that the UK is struggling to recover from last year’s all-time-low score.
Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), launched today, reveals that the UK is struggling to recover from last year’s all-time-low score.
The CPI ranks 180 countries - including the UK – according to the perceived levels of corruption among public officials and politicians, as assessed by international experts and institutions. It scores countries on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is perceived to be highly corrupt and 10 indicates low levels of corruption.
The 2009 CPI scores the UK at 7.7 – the same as last year’s all-time low – and ranks it 17th out of 180, against 16th in 2008. Before 2008 the UK CPI score never fell below 8.
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