Berlin-based NGO Transparency International has released its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index which found that the issue of corruption is still consistent, undermining the international Covid-19 response, threatening global recovery and contributing to democratic backsliding. Every year, the research ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, drawing on 13 expert assessments and surveys of business executives. They are then ranked on a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (clean). In 2020, the average score was just 43 out of 100 with two thirds of countries scoring less than 50.
Transparency International states that the past tumultuous year has shown that Covid-19 is not just a health and economic crisis but also a corruption crisis. Corruption in healthcare takes many forms including bribery and embezzlement to overpricing and favoritism. Reports of corruption have exploded around the world since the outbreak of the pandemic and countless lives were lost in 2020 due to the insidious effects of the problem undermining a fair and equitable global response. The analysis found that countries with high investment in health care tended to perform better in the index and that corruption shifts public spending away from essential services. Governments experiencing higher levels of corruption, regardless of economic development, tend to invest less in their health systems.
Denmark and New Zealand were named the countries with the lowest level of perceived public sector corruption in 2020 with a score of 88, followed by Finland, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland who were all tied on 85. At the other end of the ranking, South Sudan and Somalia had the highest perceived corruption levels with a score of just 12 each with Syria, Yemen and Venezuela also among the worst offenders. The United States only managed a score of 67 which places it 25th, its lowest level in the index since 2012. Transparency International attributed the U.S. performance to its unprecedented $1 trillion Covid-19 relief package which "raised serious anticorruption concerns and marked a significant retreat from longstanding democratic norms promoting accountable government".
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