The index ranks 180 countries using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. This year, more than two-thirds of countries score below 50, with a global average score of just 43. With many democratic institutions and norms currently under threat – often by leaders with authoritarian or populist tendencies – we analysed the relationship between corruption and global democracy trends.
We found that public sector corruption can contribute to a backsliding of democratic institutions and values. For example, Hungary and Turkey decreased in their scores over the last five years. At the same time, Turkey was downgraded from ‘partly free’ to ‘not free’ by Freedom House, while Hungary registered its lowest score for political rights since the fall of communism in 1989. These ratings reflect the deterioration of rule of law and democratic institutions, as well as a shrinking space for civil society and independent media.
Scoring 71, the United States has dropped out of the top 20 countries on the CPI. The low score comes at a time when the US is experiencing threats to its system of checks and balances alongside an erosion of ethical norms at the highest levels of power.
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Source: Transparency International
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