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Bahrain became a party with United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2010 after signing it in 2005. [1]
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Bahrain became a party with United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2010 after signing it in 2005. [1]
In Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), Bahrain scored 42. When ranked by score, Bahrain ranked 76th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [2] For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 11 (ranked 180). [3] For comparison with regional scores, the average score among Middle Eastern and North African countries [Note 1] was 34. The highest score among Middle Eastern and North African countries was 68 and the lowest score was 13. [4]
| Years | 2012 [5] | 2013 [6] | 2014 [7] | 2015 [8] | 2016 [9] | 2017 [10] | 2018 [11] | 2019 [12] | 2020 [13] | 2021 [14] | 2022 [15] | 2023 [3] |
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| Corruption Perceptions Index score | 51 | 48 | 49 | 51 | 43 | 36 | 36 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 42 |
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