Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2024

Published on 10 Sep 2025

• India ranked 96th out of 180 in the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Berlin based Transparency International.

• India’s 2023 rank was 93. 

• The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, uses a scale of zero to 100, where “zero” is highly corrupt and “100” is very clean.

• India scored 38, down from 39 in 2023 and 40 in 2022. 

• Among neighbors, Pakistan ranked 135, Sri Lanka 121, Bangladesh 149, and China 76. 

• Denmark topped the list, followed by Finland and Singapore with South Sudan at the bottom. 

• The global average remains 43, with over two-thirds of countries scoring below 50.

  

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