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Transparency International, a global anti-corruption civil society organisation that monitors the corruption level worldwide, published its annual CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX 2015  where Armenia ranks 95 out of 167 countries.

From the countries in the region, Georgia ranks 48, Turkey 66, Azerbaijan 119 and Iran 130. The CIS countries performed the following way: Moldova – 103, Belarus – 107, Russia – 119, Kazakhstan and Kirgizia share the 123^rd spot. Ukraine ranks 130, Tajikistan 136, Uzbekistan 153, and Turkmenistan is at the bottom of the CIS countries – 154. 

Therefore, Armenia performed best among the CIS countries with its level of perceptions of corruption.

Denmark, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand and the Netherlands top the list. According to the index, these countries are less corrupt. The most corrupt countries in the list are South Sudan, Sudan, Afghanistan, North Korea and Somali.

 “The 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index clearly shows that corruption remains a blight around the world. But 2015 was also a year when people again took to the streets to protest corruption. People across the globe sent a strong signal to those in power: it is time to tackle grand corruption," said José Ugaz, Chair of Transparency International.

In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2014, Armenia ranked 94 with 37 points out of 100, while Azerbaijan was on the 126^th spot with 29 scores. 

Transparency International’s index covers 168 countries measuring them on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean). The CPI 2015 is calculated using 12 different data sources from 11 different institutions that capture perceptions of corruption within the past two years.