Taipei Times
Date: Feb 23, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Taiwan ranked 29th on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2017, up two notches from its 2016 ranking, with a score of 63, marking a six-year high.

The Berlin-based international coalition against corruption on Wednesday published the index, an annual ranking of countries based on perceived levels of public sector corruption.

The report found “a high corruption burden in more than two-thirds of the [180] countries surveyed.”

Taiwan’s score of 63 out of 100 — where zero represents highly corrupt and 100 represents very clean — puts it above both the global average and the regional average for the Asia-Pacific region of 43 and 44, respectively.    [FULL  STORY]