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Transparency International's 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
More than two-thirds of the 159 nations surveyed in Transparency International - 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scored less than 5 out of a clean score of 10, indicating serious levels of corruption in a majority of the countries surveyed.

World map of corruption

Corruption continues to threaten development - Many countries face profound obstacles in escaping the poverty trap.

The 2005 Index bears witness to the double burden of poverty and corruption borne by the world's least developed countries.

"Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it," said Transparency International Chairman Peter Eigen. "The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty."

Despite progress on many fronts, including the imminent entry into force of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, seventy countries - nearly half of those included in the Index - scored less than 3 on the CPI, indicating a severe corruption problem. Among the countries included in the Index, corruption is perceived as most rampant in Chad, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Myanmar and Haiti - also among the poorest countries in the world.

NOTE: CPI Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt).

TI 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index


Rank	Country	2005 CPI score*	Confidence range**	Surveys used***
1	Iceland	9.7	9.5 - 9.7	8
2	Finland	9.6	9.5 - 9.7	9
-	New Zealand	9.6	9.5 - 9.7	9
4	Denmark	9.5	9.3 - 9.6	10
5	Singapore	9.4	9.3 - 9.5	12
6	Sweden	9.2	9.0 - 9.3	10
7	Switzerland	9.1	8.9 - 9.2	9
8	Norway	8.9	8.5 - 9.1	9
9	Australia	8.8	8.4 - 9.1	13
10	Austria	8.7	8.4 - 9.0	9
11	Netherlands	8.6	8.3 - 8.9	9
-	United Kingdom	8.6	8.3 - 8.8	11
13	Luxembourg	8.5	8.1 - 8.9	8
14	Canada	8.4	7.9 - 8.8	11
15	Hong Kong	8.3	7.7 - 8.7	12
16	Germany	8.2	7.9 - 8.5	10
17	USA	7.6	7.0 - 8.0	12
18	France	7.5	7.0 - 7.8	11
19	Belgium	7.4	6.9 - 7.9	9
-	Ireland	7.4	6.9 - 7.9	10
21	Chile	7.3	6.8 - 7.7	10
-	Japan	7.3	6.7 - 7.8	14
23	Spain	7.0	6.6 - 7.4	10
24	Barbados	6.9	5.7 - 7.3	3
25	Malta	6.6	5.4 - 7.7	5
26	Portugal	6.5	5.9 - 7.1	9
27	Estonia	6.4	6.0 - 7.0	11
28	Israel	6.3	5.7 - 6.9	10
-	Oman	6.3	5.2 - 7.3	5
30	United Arab Emirates	6.2	5.3 - 7.1	6
31	Slovenia	6.1	5.7 - 6.8	11
32	Botswana	5.9	5.1 - 6.7	8
-	Qatar	5.9	5.6 - 6.4	5
-	Taiwan	5.9	5.4 - 6.3	14
-	Uruguay	5.9	5.6 - 6.4	6
36	Bahrain	5.8	5.3 - 6.3	6
37	Cyprus	5.7	5.3 - 6.0	5
-	Jordan	5.7	5.1 - 6.1	10
39	Malaysia	5.1	4.6 - 5.6	14
40	Hungary	5.0	4.7 - 5.2	11
-	Italy	5.0	4.6 - 5.4	9
-	South Korea	5.0	4.6 - 5.3	12
43	Tunisia	4.9	4.4 - 5.6	7
44	Lithuania	4.8	4.5 - 5.1	8
45	Kuwait	4.7	4.0 - 5.2	6
46	South Africa	4.5	4.2 - 4.8	11
47	Czech Republic	4.3	3.7 - 5.1	10
-	Greece	4.3	3.9 - 4.7	9
-	Namibia	4.3	3.8 - 4.9	8
-	Slovakia	4.3	3.8 - 4.8	10
51	Costa Rica	4.2	3.7 - 4.7	7
-	El Salvador	4.2	3.5 - 4.8	6
-	Latvia	4.2	3.8 - 4.6	7
-	Mauritius	4.2	3.4 - 5.0	6
55	Bulgaria	4.0	3.4 - 4.6	8
-	Colombia	4.0	3.6 - 4.4	9
-	Fiji	4.0	3.4 - 4.6	3
-	Seychelles	4.0	3.5 - 4.2	3
59	Cuba	3.8	2.3 - 4.7	4
-	Thailand	3,8	3.5 - 4.1	13
-	Trinidad and Tobago	3,8	3.3 - 4.5	6
62	Belize	3.7	3.4 - 4.1	3
-	Brazil	3,7	3.5 - 3.9	10
64	Jamaica	3.6	3.4 - 3.8	6
65	Ghana	3.5	3.2 - 4.0	8
-	Mexico	3.5	3.3 - 3.7	10
-	Panama	3.5	3.1 - 4.1	7
-	Peru	3.5	3.1 - 3.8	7
-	Turkey	3.5	3.1 - 4.0	11
70	Burkina Faso	3.4	2.7 - 3.9	3
-	Croatia	3.4	3.2 - 3.7	7
-	Egypt	3.4	3.0 - 3.9	9
-	Lesotho	3.4	2.6 - 3.9	3
-	Poland	3.4	3.0 - 3.9	11
-	Saudi Arabia	3.4	2.7 - 4.1	5
-	Syria	3.4	2.8 - 4.2	5
77	Laos	3.3	2.1 - 4.4	3
78	China	3.2	2.9 - 3.5	14
-	Morocco	3.2	2.8 - 3.6	8
-	Senegal	3.2	2.8 - 3.6	6
-	Sri Lanka	3.2	2.7 - 3.6	7
-	Suriname	3.2	2.2 - 3.6	3
83	Lebanon	3.1	2.7 - 3.3	4
-	Rwanda	3.1	2.1 - 4.1	3
85	Dominican Republic	3.0	2.5 - 3.6	6
-	Mongolia	3.0	2.4 - 3.6	4
-	Romania	3.0	2.6 - 3.5	11
88	Armenia	2.9	2.5 - 3.2	4
-	Benin	2.9	2.1 - 4.0	5
-	Bosnia & Herzegovina	2.9	2.7 - 3.1	6
-	Gabon	2.9	2.1 - 3.6	4
-	India	2.9	2.7 - 3.1	14
-	Iran	2.9	2.3 - 3.3	5
-	Mali	2.9	2.3 - 3.6	8
-	Moldova	2.9	2.3 - 3.7	5
-	Tanzania	2.9	2.6 - 3.1	8
97	Algeria	2.8	2.5 - 3.3	7
-	Argentina	2.8	2.5 - 3.1	10
-	Madagascar	2.8	1.9 - 3.7	5
-	Malawi	2.8	2.3 - 3.4	7
-	Mozambique	2.8	2.4 - 3.1	8
-	Serbia and Montenegro	2.8	2.5 - 3.3	7
103	Gambia	2.7	2.3 - 3.1	7
-	Macedonia, Rep. of	2.7	2.4 - 3.2	7
-	Swaziland	2.7	2.0 - 3.1	3
-	Yemen	2.7	2.4 - 3.2	5
107	Belarus	2.6	1.9 - 3.8	5
-	Eritrea	2.6	1.7 - 3.5	3
-	Honduras	2.6	2.2 - 3.0	7
-	Kazakhstan	2.6	2.2 - 3.2	6
-	Nicaragua	2.6	2.4 - 2.8	7
-	Palestine	2.6	2.1 - 2.8	3
-	Ukraine	2.6	2.4 - 2.8	8
-	Viet Nam	2.6	2.3 - 2.9	10
-	Zambia	2.6	2.3 - 2.9	7
-	Zimbabwe	2.6	2.1 - 3.0	7
117	Afghanistan	2.5	1.6 - 3.2	3
-	Bolivia	2.5	2.3 - 2.9	6
-	Ecuador	2.5	2.2 - 2.9	6
-	Guatemala	2.5	2.1 - 2.8	7
-	Guyana	2.5	2.0 - 2.7	3
-	Libya	2.5	2.0 - 3.0	4
-	Nepal	2.5	1.9 - 3.0	4
-	Philippines	2.5	2.3 - 2.8	13
-	Uganda	2.5	2.2 - 2.8	8
126	Albania	2.4	2.1 - 2.7	3
-	Niger	2.4	2.2 - 2.6	4
-	Russia	2.4	2.3 - 2.6	12
-	Sierra Leone	2.4	2.1 - 2.7	3
130	Burundi	2.3	2.1 - 2.5	3
-	Cambodia	2.3	1.9 - 2.5	4
-	Congo, Republic of	2.3	2.1 - 2.6	4
-	Georgia	2.3	2.0 - 2.6	6
-	Kyrgyzstan	2.3	2.1 - 2.5	5
-	Papua New Guinea	2.3	1.9 - 2.6	4
-	Venezuela	2.3	2.2 -2.4	10
137	Azerbaijan	2.2	1.9 - 2.5	6
-	Cameroon	2.2	2.0 - 2.5	6
-	Ethiopia	2.2	2.0 - 2.5	8
-	Indonesia	2.2	2.1 - 2.5	13
-	Iraq	2.2	1.5 - 2.9	4
-	Liberia	2.2	2.1 - 2.3	3
-	Uzbekistan	2.2	2.1 - 2.4	5
144	Congo, Democratic Rep.	2.1	1.8 - 2.3	4
-	Kenya	2.1	1.8 - 2.4	8
-	Pakistan	2.1	1.7 - 2.6	7
-	Paraguay	2.1	1.9 - 2.3	7
-	Somalia	2.1	1.6 - 2.2	3
-	Sudan	2.1	1.9 - 2.2	5
-	Tajikistan	2.1	1.9 - 2.4	5
151	Angola	2.0	1.8 - 2.1	5
152	Cote d'Ivoire	1.9	1.7 - 2.1	4
-	Equatorial Guinea	1.9	1.6 - 2.1	3
-	Nigeria	1.9	1.7 - 2.0	9
155	Haiti	1.8	1.5 - 2.1	4
-	Myanmar	1.8	1.7 - 2.0	4
-	Turkmenistan	1.8	1.7 - 2.0	4
158	Bangladesh	1.7	1.4 - 2.0	7
-	Chad	1.7	1.3 - 2.1	6

Explanatory notes * CPI Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt). Confidence range provides a range of possible values of the CPI score. This reflects how a country's score may vary, depending on measurement precision. Nominally, with 5 percent probability the score is above this range and with another 5 percent it is below. However, particularly when only few sources (n) are available an unbiased estimate of the mean coverage probability is lower than the nominal value of 90%. * Surveys used refers to the number of surveys that assessed a country's performance. 18 surveys and expert assessments were used and at least 3 were required for a country to be included in the CPI. To get in-depth information visit: Transparency International

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