18 November 2009

Iran Drops 27 Places in the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index

As I predicted one month ago, Iran took a considerable fall in Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

While Iran ranked 141 out of 180 countries surveyed in 2008 with a CPI score of 2.3, it dropped to 168 with a CPI score of 1.8 in 2009. Only Uzbekistan, Chad, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Somalia ranked lower than the Islamic Republic.

The complete 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index table can be found here.