Next year, Ukraine is expected to occupy a place even lower
According to this year's survey on Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the rating of Ukraine on the level of corruption has remained unchanged - 25 points out of 100 possible. Thus the country was ranked 144 among 177 countries surveyed, as the website of the organization informs.
Ukraine is stable in the group of "high-risk" with Cameroon, Iran, Nigeria, Central African Republic and Papua New Guinea, but next year it risks slipping even lower.
Ukraine is quickly losing points in terms of doing business in the state. Thus, the total aggregate ranking of CPI corruption Ukraine "sunk" by 10 points according to indicators of political and financial corruption (CPI component index is drawn from the data of the Political Risk Services International Country Risk Guide). In this study the indicators of over selective protection and suspiciously close ties between politics and business are taken into account.