Good News For Canada In The 2015 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index

On Jan. 27, 2016, Transparency International published its Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”) for 2015. The CPI ranks 168 countries and territories based on the perceived level of corruption in each country’s public sector. 

Canada placed 9^th in the rankings and improved its score by 2 points with 83 points on a scale of 0-100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.  The 2015 CPI is available for download here.

Denmark ranked in the top spot for the second year in a row, followed by Finland and Sweden, with scores of 91, 90 and 89 respectively. North Korea and Somalia occupied the two bottom positions, with just 8 points each. Overall, 2015 was a year of advances, with a greater number of countries improving their scores than declining. However, more than two-thirds of the countries ranked in the 2015 CPI continue to score less than 50. Countries of interest to Canadian corporations with operations abroad include: the United States (76, 16^th place),