Transparency International's (TI) annual reveal of their Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) this January continues a pessimistic tone.

Reflecting on 2018, TI continues to score 180 countries on a scale from zero to 100 to reflect the level of corruption - where 100 reflects the very clean and zero the highly corrupt.

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