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[–] jonzobot@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

~~I think you misread that - I don't think the wiki says that, and the CPI's own site says "100 is very clean and 0 is highly corrupt"~~

actually I apologise and take that back, you are in fact correct - I now see that there's two different numbers: firstly the CPI score, which for the US in 2025 is 64/100 - this is the one where "100 is very clean and 0 is highly corrupt". Secondly there's the ranking, which is how a country's score places it in relation to the other 182 countries under consideration - a lower ranking means public services are more transparent than other countries. In 2025, the US was ranked at place 29.

In 2024, its score was 65, so there hasn't been a big drop since Trump returned to the White House.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 17 hours ago

Well hell I misunderstood that as well.