Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI (TI))
CPI (TI) = Corruption Perceptions Index- How often
- Each new editionOnce a year
- Last released
- 4 Feb 20262025
2025, up from 96 of 180 in 2024.
Events on this chart
Source: Transparency International, released 4 Feb 2026 · Chart: Clarity UPSC
- Previous
- 96 of 1802024
- Highest
- 96 of 1802024
- Lowest
- 85 of 1802022
4 readings since 2022.
Story
India's rank on perceived public-sector corruption (higher rank number = more corruption perceived).
What is happening now As of 2025
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025, published in February 2026, gives India a score of 39 out of 100 and ranks it 91st of 182 countries and territories. That is one point better than its CPI 2024 score of 38, when it ranked 96th of 180. India's score has stayed between 38 and 40 in every index since 2022.
India is below the global average score of 42. In Asia Pacific, 21 of 31 countries score below that average, and Transparency International names India among the major democracies in this group; the regional average is 45. It blames stalled progress in the region on weak law enforcement, unaccountable leadership and secrecy in political funding, and urges governments to make the finances of parties, candidates and election campaigns transparent.
Why it matters
Corruption decides whether public money and public power serve the people they are meant for. When officials take bribes or misuse funds, public services such as roads, schools and hospitals suffer, and honest firms lose out.
The Sustainable Development Report uses the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) as one of its measures for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16, on peace, justice and strong institutions. Because the index rests on the views of experts and business people, it reflects how people who study a country or do business there see its public sector.
What it is
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scores countries on how corrupt their public sector is seen to be. The views are those of experts and business people, gathered in surveys and assessments by institutions such as the World Bank and the World Economic Forum.
Transparency International combines 13 such sources. A country is scored only if at least 3 of them cover it. The combined result is rescaled to run from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Countries are then ranked by score. Rank 1 is the country seen as cleanest, so a higher rank number means more perceived corruption. The rank also shifts when countries are added or dropped: the 2025 index ranked 182 countries and territories, while earlier editions ranked about 180.
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Terms on this page (2)
- CPI
- Consumer Price Index
- SDG
- Sustainable Development Goal
History
- 1993Transparency International is founded, with its secretariat in Berlin.
- 1995It publishes the first Corruption Perceptions Index.
- 2012The method is updated and the 0–100 scale is set, with the 2012 results as the reference. Scores from 2012 onwards can be compared across years.
- 2017The European Commission's Joint Research Centre reviews the method.
- 2026The CPI 2025, published in February 2026, ranks 182 countries and territories.
Readings
| Period | Value | Status | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 of 182 | Final | 4 Feb 2026 |
| 2024 | 96 of 180 | Final | 11 Feb 2025 |
| 2023 | 93 of 180 | Final | 30 Jan 2024 |
| 2022 | 85 of 180 | Final | 31 Jan 2023 |
For UPSC
Know the publisher: Transparency International, based in Berlin. Here CPI means the Corruption Perceptions Index, not the Consumer Price Index. It measures perceived public-sector corruption on a 0–100 scale, where 100 is very clean, using 13 expert and business surveys.