Bulgaria Ranks 69th in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index

Bulgaria ranks 69^th in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International released on Wednesday.

Bulgaria retained its ranking from 2014, but its score slightly declined from 43 to 41.

Sharing the 69th position with Jamaica, Bulgaria is the most corrupt country among the member states of the EU.

The index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption across the world and ranks 168 countries and territories on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

Denmark continues to occupy the top of the ranking with a score of 91, while North Korea and Somalia remain at the bottom with a score of 8.

Five of the top six countries are in northern Europe – Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Norway.

Five of the ten most corrupt countries also rank among the ten least peaceful places in the world.

More than six billion people live in countries with serious corruption problems, with no state being free of corruption.

However there is a positive development as last year more countries improved their score than declined.

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