PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia has scored 49 points out of 100 (where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean) in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2021, to take the 58th place. Greece, Jordan and Namibia have similar standings.
The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
The situation has slightly deteriorated in neighboring Georgia, which has scored 55 to rank the 45th, while Azerbaijan's score is unchanged at 30, with a ranking of 128.
In the previous edition too Armenia had scored 49 points.
This year, the global average remains unchanged for the tenth year in a row, at just 43 out of a possible 100 points. Despite multiple commitments, 131 countries have made no significant progress against corruption in the last decade. Two-thirds of countries score below 50, indicating that they have serious corruption problems, while 27 countries are at their lowest score ever.