India ranked 78th among 180 countries in Global Corruption Index 2018

India ranked 78th among 180 countries in Global Corruption Index 2018 

On tuesday, the Transparency International released "Corruption Perception Index 2018". As per report, compared to last year global corruption index india improved its ranking and climbed three positions to 78.

While our neighbouring countries- China ranked 87 and Pakistan ranked 117. Both the countries ranked below india.

The Global Watchdog said, "As India gears up for its upcoming elections, we see little significant movement in its CPI score, which moved from 40 in 2017 to 41 in 2018".

Also said "Despite spectacular public mobilisation in 2011, where citizens demanded that the government take action against corruption and advocated for the passage of the comprehensive Jan Lokpal Act, these efforts ultimately fizzled and fell flat, with little to no movement on the ground to build the specialist anti-corruption infrastructure required".

According to Global Corruption Index 2018, The top countries on the list are Denmark with scores of 88 followed by New Zealand with scores of 87, Finland with scores of 85. Whereas Somalia, Syria and South Sudan are at the bottom of the list with scores of 10, 13 and 13 respectively.

Out of 180 countries, two-thirds of its scored below 50 in the index, with an average score of only 43. India with scores of 41 was below the average.