The Transparency International – a German non-governmental organization aimed at combating global corruption – has placed Pakistan at 124 spot in its global corruption perceptions list for 2020, four spots down from 2019’s ranking.
The Berlin-based organization releases corruption indexes annually, detailing the level of corruption in the 180 countries of the world.
The corruptions perception indexes use a scale of 0 to 100 — zero being highly corrupt and 100 meaning very clean. Pakistan has a score of 31/100, one spot down the 2019 score.
The Transparency International’s 2020 list has placed Pakistan at the 124th spot, four spots down from the 2019 ranking and 7 spots down the 2018 ranking. The level of corruption in the country is perceived as rising sharply.
Pakistan’s ranking comes despite the claims by the National Accountability Bureau that it has recovered 363 billion rupees in the last two years and the Public Accounts Bureau which claims to have recovered 300 billion rupees in the same period.