Transparency International published its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) today showing that most of the world continues to fail to fight corruption: 95% of countries have made little to no progress since 2017.

The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived, according to experts and businesspeople, levels of public sector corruption on a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

The CPI global average remains unchanged at 43 for the eleventh year in a row, and more than two-thirds of countries have a serious problem with corruption, scoring below 50.

Denmark (90) tops the index this year, with Finland and New Zealand following closely, both at 87. South Sudan (13), Syria (13) and Somalia (12), all of which are embroiled in protracted conflict, remain at the bottom of the CPI.

Armenia, with a score of 46/100, ranked 63rd in the 180 countries included in the CPI. The country’s score decreased by three since 2021.

Armenia's score had increased since 2018, when Nikol Pashinyan came to power.