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Singapore ranks as 5th least corrupt country in 2023 index led by Denmark

  • Singapore remains the only Asian country in the top 10 of the latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index
  • Denmark was ranked as the least corrupt country

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Singapore was the only Asian nation to be ranked in the top ten of the annual corruption index. Photo: Xinhua
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Singapore maintained its position as the fifth least corrupt country in the world, according to the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index.
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Singapore remains the only Asian country to have been placed in the top 10 since the index was first published in 1995. It was third in 2018 and 2020, fourth in 2019 and 2021 and dropped to fifth in 2022 and 2023.

The index ranks and measures countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Countries are scored on a scale of 0 (very corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

Input is provided via expert opinion and the surveys of businesspeople, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) said in a press release on Tuesday. It said that this data was taken from 13 external sources.

Singapore scored 83 in 2023, the same score it received the year before.

Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2023

  1. Denmark (90 points)

  2. Finland (87)

  3. New Zealand (85)

  4. Norway (84)

  5. Singapore (83)

  6. Sweden (82), Switzerland (82)

  7. Netherlands (79)

  8. Germany (78), Luxembourg (78)

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