The Group of 20 members represent around 85 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product, over 75 per cent of global trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population.
In 2010, the G20 formed an Anti-Corruption Working Group with an action plan. A monitoring report released a couple of years later showed progress but left room for plenty of improvement.
Where do G20 members rank today on the corruption perceptions index?
Here are the member countries — 19 nations are part of the G20, and the 20th member is the EU — ranked according to their place on the CPI:
1. Australia 9
2. Canada 9
3. Germany 12
4. United Kingdom 14
5. Japan 18
6. United States 19
7. France 22
8. South Korea 46
9. Turkey 53
10. Saudi Arabia 63
11. Italy 69
12. Brazil 72
13. South Africa 72
14. China 80
15. India 94
16. Mexico 106
17. Argentina 106
18. Indonesia 114
19. Russia 127
The average CPI rank for the 19 member countries is 58.
That doesn’t sound too bad until you look at the bottom ten countries — or more than half the members.
Their average rank on the CPI is 90.
And the bottom five countries have an average rank of 109 — firmly in the bottom half of the 177 countries ranked on the CPI overall.
At least for now, the G20 — the self-described “premier forum for its members’ international economic cooperation and decision-making” — has plenty of work to do in its own backyard to fight corruption.
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Richard L. Cassin is the publisher and editor of the FCPA Blog. He can be contacted here.
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