By Chisomo Phiri
ABUJA-(MaraviPost)-Nigeria has been ranked the second most corrupt country in West Africa with Guinea-Bissau coming first in the sub-region.
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) revealed this in the latest ranking report issued of Thursday.
According to the report, Nigeria is now ranked 149th out of the 180 countries considered after scoring 25 out of 100 points.
This is a drop from the 26 points that it had in 2019 when it was ranked 146th in TI’s 2019 report.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption in the opinion of experts and business people, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
With the latest ranking, Nigeria is now the second most corrupt country in West Africa with Guinea-Bissau the only country more corrupt than Nigeria in the sub-region.
In Africa, only 12 countries are perceived to be more corrupt than Nigeria. These include Zimbabwe, Chad, Eritrea, Burundi, Congo, Guinea Bissau, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Somalia and South Sudan. Both Somalia and South Sudan were ranked as the most corrupt nations on earth.
The least corrupt countries in the world are Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Singapore, Sweden Switzerland, Norway, The Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.
The United Kingdom, Canada and Hong Kong were all ranked at 11 while the United States received one of its lowest ever rankings at 25.
