How corrupt a country's public sector is perceived to be by business executives and country analysts, aggregated from up to 13 independent expert surveys onto a 0-100 scale.
Corruption Perceptions Index: 2012 ranked 93 of 175; 2013 ranked 93 of 176; 2014 ranked 84 of 174; 2015 ranked 76 of 168; 2016 ranked 79 of 176; 2017 ranked 81 of 180; 2018 ranked 78 of 180; 2019 ranked 80 of 180; 2020 ranked 86 of 180; 2021 ranked 85 of 180; 2022 ranked 85 of 180; 2023 ranked 93 of 180; 2024 ranked 96 of 180; 2025 ranked 91 of 182.
What the publisher changed
2012: Transparency International rebuilt the scale in 2012. Scores before that year are not comparable and are not shown.
Computed from Transparency International's released score table. It reproduces TI's printed ordinal exactly in every year TI publishes one, and extends the same basis back to 2012, where TI releases scores but no rank.
Coverage
180-182 countries, 2012-2025, all ten tracked countries.
Limitations
Measures perception, not incidence. It captures public-sector bribery and cannot see private-sector corruption, money laundering or illicit finance.
Every stored edition
India’s rank and score in the Corruption Perceptions Index by edition year
