Armenia ranks the 125th among 180 states in the annual global corruption report. According to the Global Corruption Report 2009 of Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks countries in terms of the degree to which businesspeople and country analysts perceive corruption to exist among public officials and politicians.

The countries were assessed on a scale from 1-to 10, the calculations were conducted by three international organizations of the examined states. According to Transparency International, Armenian office Chairwoman Amalia Kostanyan, last year Armenia took the 114th place in the rating. She considers that this fact is induced not by system changes, but events that impact people’s mentality and therefore public opinion.

Transparency International Executive Director Varuzhan Hoktanyan said: “As compared to the last year, Armenia’s index reduced by 0.2 point, making 2.7 points. The same tendency was registered in Azerbaijan and Georgia, however the most dramatic reduction was fixed in Iran.”

The lowest indexes-1.1 testifying the high corruption rate are registered in Somali, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and Iraq, while the highest index 9.4- in New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Singapore.