Uzbekistan slipped three places to the 124th position out of 182 countries and territories on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025 released on Tuesday.
Uzbekistan’s score has gone down by one point since the previous year. While there has been slow regress in anti-corruption efforts in Central Asia, as many countries witnessed public anger in the previous year, the Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog's report said.
"The 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that corruption remains a serious threat in every part of the world, although there are limited signs of progress.
"Leaders must act to tackle abuses of power and the wider factors driving this decline, such as the roll-back of democratic checks and balances, and attacks on independent civil society," the report said.
"Anti-government protests in many parts of the world show that people are fed up with unaccountable leadership and are demanding reform," it added.
The CPI ranks 182 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’s rankings since 2016:
- 156th place in 2016 (21 points);
- 157th place in 2017 (22 points);
- 158th place in 2018 (23 points);
- 153rd place in 2019 (25 points);
- 146th place in 2020 (26 points);
- 140th place in 2021 (28 points);
- 126th place in 2022 (31 points);
- 121st place in 2023 (33 points);
- 121st place in 2024 (32 points).
