Nepal’s position on the latest Corruption Perception Index has been downgraded from that of last year by four places. The country is now placed 117th place among 180 countries and territories surveyed in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 released on Thursday.

The annual report of Transparency International, a global anti-corruption group based in Berlin, publishes the perception of corruption in a country. In the 2019 report, it had ranked 113th.  

This is a significant drop in Nepal ranking, especially when it had managed to move up 11 spots up in the annual of 2019 compared to 2018 when it had been ranked 124th.

This year Nepal’s score is 33. The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, drawing on 13 expert assessments and surveys of business executives. It uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is most corrupt and 100 is least corrupt.

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