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Perceived corruption up in Italy says report

Italy’s score in the the latest edition of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has worsened by one point, dropping to 53.

A country’s score is the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 means very clean.

The average score for the EU was 62.

Italy’s score puts it 52nd out of the 182 countries/territories worldwide, 19th in the European Union and 31st out of 38 in the OECD.