Bulgaria Ranks 69th in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index

India has moved up nine spots on the Corruption Perceptions Index in 2015 to 76, from 85 in 2014, according to a new report by Transparency International. Brazil saw the biggest drop on the index, falling 5 points and 7 positions to a rank of 76th.

Despite so many European countries in the top ten, Transparency International said there was still a lot of room for improvement in Europe and Central Asia, which it grouped as one region.

Although corruption is still rife globally, many countries improved their scores in the 2015 edition of the corruption index, a Trasparency International statement said on Wednesday.

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Denmark tops of the index for the second consecutive year as the country perceived as least corrupt.

The Grand Duchy tied with Germany and the United Kingdom in 10th place, out of 168 jurisdictions, in the “Global Perceptions Index 2015”.

Characteristics such as a free press, publicly available budget information and judiciaries which do not treat people differently depending on their wealth were shared by top-performing countries, with Denmark listed as the least corrupt country, according to The Telegraph.

Points-wise, Luxembourg scored 81, a drop of one point from past year on a scale that sees 0 as extremely corrupt and 100 as very clean from corruption.

The bottom five were Angola (163), South Sudan (163), Sudan (165), Afghanistan (166) and North Korea and Somalia shared the last place at 167 with a score of 8 each.

He hoped the government would take serious steps to implement the recommendations of TI Pakistan which might result in marked reduction in corruption and much better CPI in future.

Sri Lanka’s neighbor, India improved in ranking in 2015 to place at the 76th place despite with the same score of 38 as in 2014. “To stamp out the abuse of power, bribery and shed light on secret deals, citizens must together tell their governments they have had enough”, Mr Ugaz said.