NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The Bahamas has dropped one spot to being ranked at 30 out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI).
The Bahamas scored 63 points out of 100 on the index. Barbados, which ranked at 29, scored 64. New Zealand and Denmark both ranked number one, each with a score of 88.
The report states that a country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale from zero to 100. Zero means the country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means the country is perceived as very clean.
The Corruption Perception Index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and business people.