Just like last year, Uzbekistan ranked 121th out of 180 countries in the 2024 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), Transparency International said in a report on Tuesday.
The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories worldwide by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The results are given on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Uzbekistan scored 31 points, 1 point down to the last year, to be second among the countries of Central Asia after Kazakhstan.
The top country in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which includes 19 countries (including Uzbekistan), was Georgia - 53th place (on 53 points). Kazakhstan, on 40 points, is in 88th position.
Belarus is in 114th place in the ranking (33 points), Ukraine is in 105th (35 points). Kyrgyzstan is 146th on 25 points, and Russia scored 22 points and slipped to 154th place.
Tajikistan (9) and Turkmenistan (17) were ranked 164 and 165th, respectively.
The CPI, which measures how corrupt a country's public sector is perceived to be by its experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of zero to 100 where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) noted that corruption is a dangerous problem in every part of the world, but change for the better is happening in many countries.
Research also reveals that corruption is a major threat to climate action. It hinders progress in reducing emissions and adapting to the unavoidable effects of global heating.
