Nepal 10 study the given news article and analyze the present condition of corruption in Nepal Nepal slips down four places in global Corruption Perception Index January 28, 2021 The Kathmandu Post Nepal's position on the latest Corruption Perception Index has been downgraded from that of last year by Pour places. The country is now placed 117 place among 180 countries and territories surveyed in this your's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. The annual report of Transparency International, a global anti- corruption group based in Berlin, publishes the perception of corruption in a gountry. In the 2019 report, it had ranked 113. This is a significant drop in Nepal ranking, especially when it had managed to move up 11 spots up in the annual of 2019 compared to 2018 when it had been ranked 124. This year Nepals score is 33. The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public seetor-coruption, drawing on 13 expert assessments and surveys of business executives. It uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is most corrupt and 100 is least corrupt. In South Asia, while Bhutan is the highest-ranked at 24" place, Nepal is behind Maldives (75), India (86), Sri Lanka (94) and Pakistan (124). Bangladesh (146") and Afghanistan (165) trail behind Nepal in the region. With a score of 88, New Zealand continues to be one of the two top performers on the CPI in the world, according to the latest report. Denmark too has a score of 88 points. Syria, Somalia and South Sudan come at the bottom, with 14, 12 and 12 points respectively. In the Asia-Pacific, New Zealand is followed by Singapore (85), Australia (77) and Hong Kong (77) while Cambodia (21), Afghanistan (19) and North Korea (18) earn the lowest scores in the region.​