Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) report released this week has put Australia in 10th place, scoring 77 points on the 100-point scale.

Australia has increased its standing in the CPI, with a score of 77 on the 100-point scale, re-entering the top 10 for the first time since 2016.
The score places Australia back in the top 10 countries for the first time since 2016 (=10th alongside Iceland and Ireland) – having climbed back from an all-time low of 73 and 18th place on the Index in 2021.

But the result is still down from a high of 85/100 in 2012.

The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories worldwide by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The results are given on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

Countries with strong institutions and well-functioning democracies often find themselves at the top of the Index. For the seventh year in a row, Denmark heads the ranking, with a score of 90. Finland and Singapore take the second and third spots, with scores of 88 and 84, respectively. Scoring 83, New Zealand is out of the top three positions for the first time since 2012, but it remains in the top 10, together with Luxembourg (81), Norway (81), Switzerland (81), Sweden (80), the Netherlands (78), Australia (77).

Meanwhile, countries experiencing conflict or with highly restricted freedoms and weak democratic
institutions occupy the bottom of the index. South Sudan (8), Somalia (9) and Venezuela (10) take the
last three spots. Syria (12), Equatorial Guinea (13), Eritrea (13), Libya (13), Yemen (13), Nicaragua
(14), Sudan (15) and North Korea (15) complete the list of lowest scorers.

You can explore the full report here.