O Brazil plummeted in corruption index elaborated annually by International transparency and got Your worst grade since 2012when the historical series began.
In a total of 180 countries, Brazil went from 96th place in 2022 for the 104th place in 2023 And now three more positions fell, going to 107th on the list.
Ten years ago, Brazil had been tied with other European Union countries – such as Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.
Since then, she has retreated 38 positions and today is practically next to Algeria, Nepal, Thailand and Türkiye.
O is considered one of the world’s leading indicators in this area.
The ranking adds data from different sources that bring the perception of academics, jurists, entrepreneurs and other experts on the level of corruption in the public sector in each country analyzed.
The notes range from zero to 100. The higher the grade, the greater the perception of integrity in the country. From a peak of 43, registered in 2012 and 2014, Brazil received a grade 38 in 2022 and 36 in 2023. Now it fell even more and went to 34 in 2024.
International Transparency highlighted ten negative points about Brazil last year. Among them, he cites the “repeated silence” of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) about the anti -corruption agenda and the renegotiation of leniency agreements signed with companies involved in.
The “loving” and “uncontrolled” of parliamentary amendments, the approval of the amnesty PEC (with a kind of refis from political parties), the lack of transparency of the new PAC and the perception of “growing political interference with Petrobras” are other points mentioned.
In 2024, the best places in the International Transparency Index were Denmark (90 points), Finland (88) and Singapore (84).
The trio of worst placed has South Sudan (Note 8), Somalia (9) and Venezuela (10).
The best positioned countries in Latin America are Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica. Argentina (with 37 points) is close to Brazil. Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia are behind.
Last year, in response to the promotion of international transparency on the fall of Brazil in its annual ranking, the Union Comptroller General (CGU) said the movement should be interpreted with “caution”;
The CGU stressed, at the time, that “international studies discuss the methodological limitations of perception -based indices”.
“Several international organizations – including UN, G20 and OECD – have discussed the elaboration of new measures on the subject. Corruption is a complex phenomenon and no indicator can measure all its aspects, ”said the CGU.
In addition, the controllership said it “works daily to identify and correct risk of corruption in public policies, hiring and other actions of the state.”
