Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt a country’s public sector and judiciary are perceived to be by experts and business executives.

The index, which measures perception of corruption in the public sector, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. India’s score improved to 41 in 2018 from  40 points in both 2016 and 2017.

The Corruption perception index makes the following observations about India:

• India’s score has been marginally improved to 41 from 40 in 2017.
• India’s ranking increased from 81^st in 2017 to 78 in 2018.
• India had slid from 79th rank in 2016.
• The report cities countries like India along with Malaysia, Maldives and Pakistan will be important to watch moving forward.

New Zealand and Singapore scored the highest scores with 89 and 84 out of 100, respectively. Somalia was found to be the most corrupt country in the world. A majority of the world’s countries scored below 50 on the index with the global average score coming at around 43.