TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL KYRGYZSTAN - Corruption Perceptions Index

Corruption Perceptions Index

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) measures the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The CPI is a "survey of surveys", based on 13 different expert and business surveys.)

The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index has gained wide prominence in the international media since 1995. The results show seven out of every ten countries (and nine out of every ten developing countries) with an index of less than 5 points out of 10.

A country or territory’s CPI Score indicates the degree of public sector corruption as perceived by business people and country analysts, and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt)

The 2009 CPI draws on 13 different polls and surveys from 10 independent institutions. Data sources must be published in the past two years to be eligible for inclusion. All data sources must provide a ranking of countries/territories and measure the overall extent of corruption. This condition excludes surveys which mix corruption with other issues, such as political instability, decentralisation or nationalism. TI strives to ensure that the sources used are of the highest quality and that the survey work is performed with complete integrity.

The vast majority of the 180 countries included in the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) score below five on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 10 (perceived to have low levels of corruption).
According to the figures of Transparency International, which publishes annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI), the overall results in 2009 cause some concern as corruption continues to hide behind lack of transparency of rules, where the institutions still need strengthening, and where Governments failed to comply with anti-corruption legal framework.
Fragile, unstable states that are scarred by war and ongoing conflict linger at the bottom of the index. These are: Somalia, with a score of 1.1, Afghanistan at 1.3, Myanmar at 1.4 and Sudan tied with Iraq at 1.5. These results demonstrate that countries which are perceived to have the highest levels of public-sector corruption are also those plagued by long-standing conflicts, which have torn apart their governance infrastructure.
CPI Index in Kyrgyzstan is 1,9 score. The same positions with Kyrgyzstan occupy such countries as Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Republic of the Congo and Venezuela. In Central Asia Turkmenistan tied at 1,8 and Uzbekistan at 1,7. Tajikistan is at 2,0 and Kazakhstan at 2,7. Russian and Ukraine got 2,2 scores and they are in the same line with Konya, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Ecuador.
Highest scorers in the 2009 CPI are New Zealand at 9.4, Denmark at 9.3, Singapore and Sweden tied at 9.2 and Switzerland at 9.0. These scores reflect political stability, long-established conflict of interest regulations and solid, functioning public institutions. The best results among post-soviet countries belong to Estonia which is at 6,6.

Scores received by Kyrgyzstan within the period from 2003 to 2009 according to the Corruption Perception Index