A report released on Monday 29 January by the non-governmental organisation Transparency International reveals that of the 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa considered to be the most corrupt, Mozambique ranks 35th.
This year’s edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) explains that Mozambique’s trend over the last five years has seen it lose one point, while in the last 11 years it has lost six.
The CPI was created by Transparency International in 1995 and has since become a benchmark for analysing the phenomenon of corruption, based on the perceptions of experts and business executives.
It is a composite index, i.e. it is the result of combining sources of corruption analysis developed by other independent organisations, and ranks 180 countries from zero (perceived as very corrupt) to 100 points (very transparent).
In 2012, the organisation revised the methodology used to construct the index, so that it could compare scores from previous years.
