Czechia drops to 46th spot on TI’s corruption perception ranking

The Czech Republic has dropped five places in Transparency International’s global corruption perception ranking, now ranking 46th. According to Transparency International’s Czech branch, the decline is due to delays in key anti-corruption reforms and a lack of political integrity. Czechia scored 56 out of 100—one point lower than last year and six behind the EU average. Meanwhile, Slovakia fell even further, dropping twelve places to 59th. Transparency International attributes this decline to weakened anti-corruption controls under Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government.

Denmark remains the world’s least corrupt country, followed by Finland and Singapore. At the other end of the ranking, South Sudan, Somalia, and Venezuela scored the worst. Transparency International’s annual Index has rated countries by perceived levels of corruption since 1995 on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being very corrupt and 100 being very clean.