Bangladesh has been ranked 13 among the world’s most corrupt countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by Transparency International on Tuesday.
Bangladesh secured 26 points on a scale of 1-100 for the fourth year in a row, according to CPI 2021. And Bangladesh has been ranked number two among South Asian nations — after Afghanistan — in the index. Bangladesh is the third-most corrupt among 31 Asia-Pacific countries, according to the index.
The score for 2021 is the same as in 2020, 2019, and 2018. Counting from the top, Bangladesh is ranked 147th, one position lower than in 2020, and from the bottom, it is ranked 13th, one position higher than in 2020, according to the index released by Transparency International at a webinar.
With a score of 88 out of 100, Denmark, Finland and New Zealand topped the global CP, doing best in curbing corruption.
South Sudan is the world’s most corrupt country, as per the index.
The CPI is an index published annually by Berlin-based Transparency International since 1995 which ranks countries “by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys”.
The CPI generally defines corruption as “the misuse of public power for private benefit”.
During the webinar, Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of TIB, said that the performance is disappointing — there has been no improvement in score since 2020, with the score remaining stagnated at 26 for the past 10 years, according to trend analysis.
