Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) places Armenia at 63rd out of 180 countries, maintaining its previous score of 47 out of 100, where 100 signifies a very clean public sector. This stagnation indicates that Armenia’s anti-corruption efforts have not yielded significant progress over the past year.
In the regional context, Georgia leads with 53 points, ranking 53rd. Turkey is positioned at 107th with 34 points, Iran at 151st with 23 points, while both Azerbaijan and Russia share the 154th spot, each scoring 22 points.
The CPI reflects perceptions of public sector corruption as assessed by experts and business leaders, utilizing a scale where higher scores denote lower levels of perceived corruption.
Despite the Armenian government’s pledge in 2019 to elevate its CPI score to 55 within three years, the unchanged score suggests persistent challenges in combating corruption.
Varuzhan Hoktanian, the Program Director of Transparency International’s Armenian partner organization, said the latest findings of the global survey show that corruption remains a serious problem in the country despite government claims to the contrary.
“We are in a stagnation phase now,” Hoktanian noted, adding that the government’s efforts to combat corruption require “serious systemic revisions.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has consistently asserted the elimination of “systemic corruption” since assuming office in 2018.
However, media reports increasingly accuse members of his administration of leveraging their positions for personal gain, raising concerns about integrity in public procurement and potential conflicts of interest.
