Australia's score has declined for the sixth year running in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI). Australia remains in 13th place, a position held for the last three years, however Australia's CPI score has fallen from 79 in 2016 to 77.
The Index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and business leaders, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 100 is the 'cleanest', and 0 is the 'most corrupt'.
New Zealand was the country assessed as being the least corrupt, with a score of 89. Somalia was the poorest performing country, achieving a score of just 9. Other countries in the top 10 include Denmark, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany. In comparison to Australia's declining score, over the last six years the UK has improved its score from 74 to 82.
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2017 Corruption Perception Index results and analysis.