Italy earns 3 points and leaps 10 positions in the ranking of countries examined by Transparency International in the 2021 edition of the Corruption Perception Index. In the ranking that accounts for the reputation of 180 countries, Italy is in 42nd place, with a score of 56, while last year it was 52nd. International confidence is therefore growing, even if the EU average, which is 64, is still far off. In ten years, Italy has earned 14 points. The progress, notes Transparency, “is the result of the growing attention paid to the problem of corruption in the last decade and bodes well for the country’s economic recovery after the crisis generated by the pandemic”.
Globally, Denmark and New Zealand remain at the top of the rankings, joined this year also by Finland, with 88 points (+3). Germany is confirmed in the leading group, with 80 points, the United Kingdom gets 78 (+1), France 71 (+2), the United States 67 as last year. At the bottom of the ranking Syria, Somalia and South Sudan. In the last year, 2 out of 3 of the countries analyzed (123 out of 180) still show important corruption problems, according to the organization, having achieved a score of less than 50, and highlight a strong risk of backwardness in the protection of human rights, in freedom of expression and a crisis of democracy. The Index developed annually by Transparency globally classifies countries based on the level of corruption perceived in the public sector, through the use of 13 analysis tools and surveys aimed at experts. The final score is determined on a scale ranging from 0 (high level of perceived corruption) to 100 (low level of perceived corruption).