A world coalition towards corruption, Transparency Worldwide has ranked Nigeria because the thirty sixth most corrupt nation on this planet alongside Uganda, Mexico, Madagascar, Iraq, and Cameroon with a complete rating of 26 factors every.
Transparency Worldwide revealed this on Tuesday in its corruption perceptions index for 2024, disclosing that South Sudan, Somalia and Venezuela had been essentially the most corrupt international locations on this planet.
In response to the listing, Denmark was the least corrupt nation on this planet with 90 factors, Finland, second with 88 factors, and Singapore was third with 84 factors.
No African nation appeared within the prime 10 cleanest international locations, which had been all European international locations, though Cape Verde ranked because the least corrupt African nation at thirty fifth place with 62 factors.
Citing the idea of the choice and outcome, the chair of Transparency Worldwide, Francois Valeria, stated, “The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) exhibits that corruption is a harmful drawback in each a part of the world, however change for the higher is occurring in lots of international locations.
“Analysis additionally reveals that corruption is a serious risk to local weather motion. It hinders progress in decreasing emissions and adapting to the unavoidable results of world heating.
“The CPI ranks 180 international locations and territories worldwide by their perceived ranges of public sector corruption. The outcomes are given on a scale of 0 (extremely corrupt) to 100 (very clear).”
Valeria said that whereas 32 international locations have considerably lowered their corruption ranges since 2012, there’s nonetheless an enormous quantity of labor to be executed as 148 international locations have remained stagnant or gotten worse throughout the identical interval.
“The worldwide common of 43 has additionally stood nonetheless for years, whereas over two-thirds of nations rating under 50. Billions of individuals reside in international locations the place corruption destroys lives and undermines human rights.”
