The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks 180 countries across a myriad of anti-corruption metrics.

AI summary:

  • Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking the United States 28th out of 180 countries for anti-corruption efforts.
  • The U.S. received its lowest-ever score of 65 out of 100, indicating concerns about public sector corruption, including bribery and misuse of public office.
  • Denmark, Finland, and Singapore were the top-ranked countries, while South Sudan ranked the lowest.
  • Recent changes to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by the Trump administration, which paused enforcement to aid U.S. companies in international business, did not affect the latest index as it only covers data through 2024.
  • Transparency International emphasizes the importance of tackling corruption to combat authoritarianism and protect human rights.
  • The report highlights that only 32 countries have improved their anti-corruption efforts since 2012, with 148 countries either remaining the same or worsening.
  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    34·
    6 days ago

    During the Trump/Musk presidency? What are the odds!?

    EDIT: I actually read the article, and it looks like the article report doesn’t cover the current administration. This score will plummet…

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

    In the last decade or so, when people called USA a 3rd world country, it was mostly tongue in cheek.

    Not anymore.

    • kozy138@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      Tbf, I was calling it 3rd world country with iPhones. Although I’m pretty sure the USA was one of the countries that invented the terms “1st/2nd/3rd world countries” as a way of dividing themselves from the brown poors

        • ___English
          1·
          6 days ago

          Yup, leapfrogging tech is definitely a thing in poor countries. Telephone and internet lines not being built in favour of cell phone towers, few bank locations in favour of mobile banking, etc

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      “America Is the Only Country That Went from Barbarism to Decadence Without Civilization In Between”

      and apparently goes the other way just as easily

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        6 days ago

        Also it’s corruption perception, which is used as a proxy because actual corruption is basically impossible to measure, but it also makes the whole thing culture-dependent. Namibia is a good example: They consider themselves more corrupt than South Africa which they definitely aren’t, they just have a lower tolerance for shenanigans.

    • tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      If you take a peek at world history there are certainly some reasons for that correlation, and it’s not a pretty story.

  • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    Drain the swamp! (Of all regulation standing in the way of Musk’s capture)

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Reminder: this is with the score artificially inflated by not counting the legal corruption that’s already baked into the US political system on purpose.

    Probably wouldn’t break 50 otherwise, BEFORE Trump.