This year, Russia received 29 points and ranked 119th, improving last year's result by 2 points and being on a par with Azerbaijan, Guyana and Sierra Leone.

Denmark (91 points), Finland (90 points) and Sweden (89 points) took the first three places in the CPI, and Afghanistan (11 points), North Korea and Somalia (8 points) took the last three. The global average CPI in 2015 was 43 points, and for Eastern Europe and Central Asia it was 33 points.

Thus, Russia's results are still below the global and regional averages of the index. Among the reasons for this, the Russian branch of TI cites: a) the small scale and unsystematic nature of criminal prosecution of top officials for corruption offenses; b) imperfect legal norms regulating liability for failure to declare income and property, as well as conflicts of interest; c) the formal and non-public nature of the implementation of departmental anti-corruption plans; and d) non-transparency in the implementation of anti-corruption programs.

In the Country Profiles section of our portal, information on the current CPI for 34 countries has been updated, and information on the other four major international anti-corruption rankings is also available.

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TI has been regularly presenting the Corruption Perceptions Index for 21 years, during which time the methodology for calculating the CPI has undergone significant changes. In particular, the current 100-point scoring system was only introduced in 2012.

In compiling the CPI, Transparency International does not conduct its own sociological surveys. The CPI is compiled by combining data obtained by other organizationsincluding the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the Asian and African Development Banks and others.