Luanda - The Republic of Angola has improved 25 places in the International Transparency Index and ranks 142nd on the general table released Thursday by a Berlin-based non-governmental organisation (NGO).
According to the NGO Transparency International table, which evaluates the perception of corruption in the public sector of 180 countries, with a score from zero (considered corrupt) to 100 (considered transparent), Angola is part of some Portuguese-speaking countries and sub-Saharan Africa that has improved its performance.
Angola has thus improved its assessment of the perception of corruption for the third year in a row, after rising two places in 2018 from 167 to 165 with a score of 19 in 2019.
In the 2020 ranking, five Portuguese-speaking countries improved their ranking, namely Angola, Brazil, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe and Cape Verde, while Portugal, Mozambique and Equatorial Guinea are the three worst Portuguese-speaking countries.
Other countries' standings
At global level, Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland remain at the forefront of this ranking. Countries such as Syria, Somalia and South Sudan, among others, are already among the last places.
Corruption and Covid-19
This year, Transparency International (TI) identified as evaluation criteria how countries coped with the Covid-19 pandemic, investment in healthcare and the impact of this crisis on democratic institutions.
"Covid-19 is not just a health and economic crisis. It is a crisis of corruption that we are currently unable to manage," said TI, according to which the year 2020 has put governments to the test like no other and those with higher levels of corruption have been less able to meet the challenge.
TI ranks 180 countries and territories by their level of perception of corruption in the public sector, according to experts and business leaders. The ranking follows a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very transparent.
Transparency International is a non-governmental organisation fighting for "a world in which governments, business, civil society and people's lives are free from corruption.
TI was founded in March 1993. It has more than 100 sections worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin.
