Jamaica Falls on Corruption Perception Index
Jamaica has fallen on the most recent publication of the most recent Corruption Prevention Index, (CPI).
On Tuesday, Transparency International published the CPI index for 2016, and Jamaica currently sits at 83rd out of 176 countries.
In 2015, Jamaica was ranked 69 out of 168 countries. The island’s CPI score is 39 out of 100… falling two points from its 2015 score of 41.
The CPI currently ranks countries “on a scale from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt).
According to Transparency International, a CPI score of less than 50 indicates ‘governments are failing to tackle corruption.’
Transparency International states:
Over two-thirds of the 176 countries and territories in this year’s index fall below the midpoint of our scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). The global average score is a paltry 43, indicating endemic corruption in a country’s public sector. Top-scoring countries (yellow in the map below) are far outnumbered by orange and red countries where citizens face the tangible impact of corruption on a daily basis.”
Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 Graphic
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