The country ruled by Afghan Taliban was ranked 162 out of 180 countries in 2023.

“Afghanistan is a corruption-free country, in the calculation of global transparency, Afghanistan ranks 162, which is a good position,” said the English translation of Zabihullah Mujahid, the government’s spokesperson, post on X.

The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public-sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople. It relies on 13 independent data sources and uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.

The report published today by the Berlin-based corruption watchdog, shows that during 2023, the CPI score was 20 out of 100.

“The fact that Afghanistan has decreased by 4 degrees compared to last year does not mean that corruption has increased in Afghanistan, but the level of transparency of some countries may have increased,” it added.