BERLIN – An index released on Tuesday has been the worst demonstration of many countries in more than a decade, from leading powers like the United States and France, to the dictatorial countries of the world, from the US and Venezuela, to corruption in the world. Works the barometer.
Transparency International, who sets the annual Corruption ideas indexIt has been found that 47 out of 180 countries conducted the survey have the lowest score last year, since it began to use its current method for its global ranking in 2012. It said of its 2024 survey that “global corruption levels are alarmingly high, with a decrease effort to try to spoil them.”
The group also pointed out threats worldwide from corruption to efforts to tackle climate change. It states that lack of transparency and accountability procedures increase the risk of climate funding or misuse of climate funds, while “inappropriate influence”, often from the private sector. Handles the approval.
The organization measures the concept of corruption in the public sector, according to 13 data sources, including the World Bank, the World Economic Forum and private risk and consulting companies. It ranks 180 countries and regions on a scale of “extremely corrupt” from 0 to 100.
Transparency International said the global average did not change from 2023 to 43, of which more than two -thirds of countries were scored under the age of 50. Denmark took first position with unchanged 90 points, followed by Finland 88 and Singapore with 84. New Zealand came from third to fourth, which made two points 83.
South Sudan slipped to the bottom of the index with just eight points, displaced Somalia, though the latter score has been nine. After that, Venezuela was with 10 and evening 12.
The United States slipped from 69 points to 65 and 24th. Transparency International pointed to criticism of its judicial branch. It noted that the US Supreme Court adopted the first code of conduct of its ethics in 2023, “but serious questions are left about the meaningful, lack of objective implementation procedures and the power of the new rules itself.”
France was also included in the fall of other Western countries, which fell four points to 67 and five places to 25th. And Germany, 75 to three points and six in six places. It was tied to Canada, which was one point and below three places.
Transparency International said that Mexico fell five points to 26 as the judiciary failed to take action in major corruption cases.
He added, “Former President Anders Manuel Lopez Obrador’s promise of dealing with corruption and the return of stolen assets to people, his six -year term ended without any punishment or exported assets.”
In Europe, Slovakia reduced Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government to five points in the first year of the government, “because many reforms ignore anti -corruption scrutiny and ignore public advice.”
Russia, which has already been significantly reduced in recent years, has reduced four more points last year. Transparency International noted that a complete scale attack on Ukraine in Moscow in February 2022 has added “further dictatorship.” It states that Ukraine, while his score has brought one point to 35, “is advancing in legal proceedings against judicial freedom and high -level corruption.”
In the Middle East and North Africa, the situation of anti -corruption efforts is “dark,” the group said, because political leaders follow close control while taking advantage of wealth and withholding disagreement. But it states that in the context of the collapse of President Bashar Assad’s government in Syria, “unexpected opportunities are also emerging”. The average score of any region was 33 years in the sub -Sahara Africa.
Transparency International said, in Asia and the Pacific, governments are still failing to provide corruption promises. “
