Arab countries topped Transparency International's Global Corruption Perceptions Index, placing them at the bottom of the 180 countries included in the report.
According to the 2025 index, corruption has shrunk in the Gulf countries, while it has continued to penetrate the rest of the Arab countries, whose ability to fight corruption has declined. The Gulf countries came in first place in the index of improvement in corruption perceptions, which measures the ratio from zero to 100 degrees, where their results ranged from 68 degrees out of 100 for the UAE, followed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia together (59 degrees), Oman (55), Bahrain (53), and Kuwait (46).
Notably, countries such as Egypt (only 30 out of 100) fell to 130th place globally out of 180 countries, and Tunisia, which fell to 92nd place with a score of 39 out of 100. Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan ranked in the last five among Arab countries.
Source (Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper, Edited)
