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PH corruption perception index score and rank drops
Scoring 34 this 2017, the Philippines also ranked 111th out of 180 countries (Pixabay photo)
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of Transparency International (TI) 2017 report published on February 21 revealed that the Philippines’ score and rank dropped to its lowest for the last five years.
Scoring 34 this 2017, the Philippines also ranked 111th out of 180 countries. The last time the country got a 34 was still back in 2012.
Compared to the last five years, this is the lowest for the Philippines to get as the country got a 35 for 2015 and 2016, then scored a 36 in 2013, and got the highest score of 38 still in year 2014.
“This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index highlights that the majority of countries are making little or no progress in ending corruption, while further analysis shows journalists and activists in corrupt countries risking their lives every day in an effort to speak out,” the report read.
It added that “The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
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The report further read that for 2017, two-thirds of the countries scored below 50, getting an average of 43.
“Unfortunately, compared to recent years, this poor performance is nothing new,” CPI’s report said.
Delia Ferreira Rubio, TI’s chairperson said that, “CPI results correlate not only with the attacks on press freedom and the reduction of space for civil society organisations. In fact, what is at stake is the very essence of democracy and freedom.”
The countries to top the index were New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden, Canada, Luxembourg, and Netherlands.
While the countries who hit the bottom were Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, and Somalia.
