To obtain this ranking the overall global country risk results were broken down by region. In addition Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index was combined with the overall ranking to create a score out of 105. This combined total was then scaled down to a score out of 100. The difference in ranking and overall score between the original ranking and that incorporating the CPI data has been incorporated in the results.
We would like to thank Transparency International, which kindly supplied the data as published in its Corruption Perceptions Index 2004.
A CPI 2004 Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people, academics and risk analysts, and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt). The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2004 charts levels of corruption in 183 countries.
No CPI scores were available for the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
Please contact Paul Pedzinski on 44 (0) 20 7779 8233 or ppedzinski@euromoneyplc.com with any questions.