India ranks 85th in Transparency International’s corruption index 2021.

About the Transparency International’s corruption index

• Transparency Internationalhas released the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2021.
• The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption .
• In 2020 India was ranked
• The results are given on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
• The ranking has been topped jointly by three countries- Denmark, Finland and New Zealand.

About Transparency International

• Transparency International is an international non-governmental organisation founded in 1993 based in Berlin, Germany.
• Its non-profit purpose is to take action to combat global Corruption with civil societal anticorruption measures and to prevent criminal activities arising from corruption.