On January 27, 2016 Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anticorruption Center presented the results of Transparency Internationals (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015. In the CPI 2015 Armenia’s score is 35 (it was 37 in 2014) on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean), and ranks 95-98th with Mali, Mexico and Philippines. Its rank is nearly the same as in 2014, when Armenia shared 94-98th places, given that instead of 168, 175 countries and territories were ranked in 2014.

Similar to the previous years, Estonia tops, remaining the leader among post-Communist countries with a CPI score of 70 (in 2014 it was 69) and it ranks 23-26th with Chile, France and United Arab Emirates. Armenia continues to fall behind almost all the countries of Eastern and Southern Europe (except Kosovo). Compared with the former Soviet states, it is behind Baltic republics and its neighbor Georgia, which has the same score as last year (CPI score 52). Among its neighbors Turkey, which suffered sufficient drop in score (42) compared with previous year (it was 45 in 2014) is still ahead of Armenia. Yet, like in the previous years, Armenia is ahead of its two other neighbors - Azerbaijan and Iran, with their CPI scores remaining unchanged compared with 2014 (29 and 27 respectively).

At the same time, Armenia, like in previous years, is ahead of other countries of Eurasian Economic Union, namely, Belarus with its CPI score 32 (in 2014 it was 31) ranking 107-111th, Russia with its score 29 (in 2014 it was 27) ranking 119-122th, and Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan sharing123-129th positions with their CPI score 28.

For details see Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015 on Transparency International Anticorruption Center or Transparency International website.