Uzbekistan improves its rank in Corruption Perception Index

AKIPRESS.COM - Uzbekistan improved its position in the Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International.
Uzbekistan was ranked 170th with 17 scores in 2012. In the latest rankings Uzbekistan climbed to 146th place with 26 scores.
Tajikistan gained 25 scores, Turkmenistan - 19 scores.
Kazakhstan gained 38 scores and Kyrgyzstan - 31 scores
The Index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
Like previous years, more than two-thirds of countries score below 50 on this year's CPI, with an average score of just 43. The data shows that despite some progress, most countries still fail to tackle corruption effectively.