Maputo, 13 Feb (AIM) – The anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International (TI), has classified Mozambique, for the second year running, in 146th position out of 180 countries ranked according to indicators of corruption.
Every year, TI publishes a Corruption Perception Index which ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
For the last two years Mozambique has scored 25 points – the same as Guatemala and Kyrgyzstan. This makes Mozambique the fourth most corrupt country in southern Africa, behind Zimbabwe and Comoros (both ranked 158, with 21 points) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (163, 20 points).
The countries at the top of the index, with least corruption, are Denmark, Finland, Singapore and New Zealand. At the bottom of the index, in 180th position, with just eight points, is South Sudan, followed by Somalia (ranked 179th, with 9 points), and Venezuela (178, ten points).
Although Mozambique’s position is nothing to cheer about, its levels of corruption are much lower than those of Russia (ranked in 154th position, with 22 points), or Iran (151, 21 points).
The rankings and scores on the Corruption Perceptions Index of all members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are as follows:
Country Rank Score
Seychelles 18 72
Botswana 43 57
Mauritius 56 51
Namibia 59 49
South Africa 82 41
Tanzania 82 41
Zambia 92 39
Lesotho 99 37
Malawi 107 34
Angola 121 32
Eswatini 135 37
Madagascar 140 26
Mozambique 146 25
Zimbabwe 158 21
Comoros 158 21
Democratic Republic of Congo 163 20
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