CPI 2022 for Sub-Saharan Africa: Corruption compounding multiple crises
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Corruption is damaging crucial enablers of progress – democracy, security and development – across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Corruption Perceptions Index
2022 Rank
162/180
2022 Score
22/100
Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index, Transparency International’s flagship research product, has become the leading global indicator of public sector corruption. The index offers an annual snapshot of the relative degree of corruption by ranking countries and territories from all over the globe. In 2012, Transparency International revised the methodology used to construct the index to allow for comparison of scores from one year to the next.
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2021 was a turbulent year for Sub-Saharan Africa. On a continent where corruption plunders precious natural resources and impedes access to public services for millions of people,…
CPI 2020: Sub-Saharan Africa
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This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) presents a largely gloomy picture for Africa – only eight of 49 countries score more than 43 out of 100 on the index. Despite…
