The Corruption Perceptions Index 2017, released last week by Transparency International, ranks Switzerland the third-least corrupt country in the world with a score of 85 (out of 100). Only New Zealand and Denmark are perceived as being less corrupt. The best performing region is Western Europe with an average score of 66.
Switzerland has moved up two places compared to last year’s ranking and is now on place three alongside Finland and Norway.
Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Transparency International’s flagship publication, is the leading global indicator of public sector corruption. The index offers an annual snapshot of the relative degree of corruption by ranking countries from all over the globe.
The CPI 2017 ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
