Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan improve rankings in TI’s Corruption Perception Index

In 2014, Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index has listed Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan among the 10 most corrupt countries in the world.

Transparency International last week published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), capturing perceptions of the extent of corruption in the public sector, based on data from independent institutions specializing in governance and business climate analysis such as the World Bank and the Economist Intelligence Unit. 
 
The CPI, which is a tool widely used by governments, civil society organizations and investors to compare levels of corruption across countries, ranks 175 countries according to scores ranging from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean). 

Uzbekistan (18) and Turkmenistan (17) remain at the very bottom of the league table of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's countries of operations. They share the 170th rank out of 175, and are therefore among the 10 most corrupt countries in the world, the EBRD reported.
 
Among other Central Asian countries, Tajikistan (23) ranks 152nd (two ranks up), Kyrgyzstan (27) ranks 136th (14 ranks up), and Kazakhstan (29) ranks 126th (14 ranks up).  

The 2014 ranking is headed by Denmark with a score of 92, while North Korea and Somalia share the last place with a score of eight.
 
In the EBRD region only eight countries are among the top 50 listed by the CPI: Estonia, Cyprus, Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia and Hungary, which are for the first time joined by Georgia this year.
 
Turkey experienced the most severe decline (from 50 to 45) among all EBRD countries in this year's ranking, though it remains amongst the better performing countries on the corruption scale.

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