# Where are the corruption hotspots, and where is corruption being overcome?

URL: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/where-are-the-corruption-hotspots-and-where-is-corruption-being-overcome
Type: Press release
Published: 2003-09-18
Updated: 2020-04-07

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18 September 2003

**The TI Corruption Perceptions Index 2003, to be released on 7 October, will include a record 133 countries**

The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2003 will be launched in London on 7 October 2003. The CPI measures the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians in a given country.

The CPI is a composite poll and draws on 17 surveys from 13 independent institutions. The surveys were carried out among business people and country analysts, both local and expatriate, during the period 2001 -2003, and no country has been included in the CPI without results from a minimum of three surveys.

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