Pakistan’s 61st among 176 in Corruption Perception Index 2016

According to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2016, Pakistan’s CPI score improved by two points from 30 to 32 out of 100. The country’s rank in the CPI 2016 improved by nine spots, to 61 in the list of most corrupt countries among 176 countries in 2016, from 52 among 168 countries in 2015.

For the first time since 1996 (when the first CPI was published), Pakistan climbed up from the lowest one-third corrupt countries to the middle one-third countries in 2016.

But, for Pakistan, it’s still one of 10 very corrupt countries on the Index. Likewise, China improved score by three points to 40. India got the same score on the Index.   Lower-ranked countries reeled under poorly performing public institutions, higher incidences of bribery and extortion and untrustworthy law enforcement agencies, like police and judiciary, according to the Transparency International. 

The global civil society organisation gleans data from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and International Institute for Management Development to determine the corruption perceptions in the public sector institutions. 

Transparency International and Corruption Perceptions Index

Transparency International (TI) is an international non-governmental organization which is based in Berlin, Germany, and was founded in 1993. Its nonprofit purpose is to take action to combat corruption and prevent criminal activities arising from corruption. It publishes for example the Global Corruption Barometer and the Corruption Perceptions Index.

Transparency International (TI) has published the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) since 1996, annually ranking countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private benefit." The CPI currently ranks 168 countries "on a scale from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt)."