Aik News:Transparency International has released the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025, showing a small but positive improvement for Pakistan compared to last year.
Transparency International’s CPI 2025 shows that Pakistan’s overall score has increased to 28, improving by one point compared to 2024. Pakistan is now ranked 136th on the index.
The report says that the improvement is linked to better governance and continued institutional reforms over the past four years. Because of these efforts, Pakistan’s score has shown a steady upward trend.
According to the report, there has been noticeable improvement not only in public sector and administrative corruption, but also in legislative institutions and the judiciary. In some key areas, including administrative and judicial corruption, Pakistan improved by up to five points.
In 2025, Transparency International surveyed 182 countries, compared to 180 countries in 2024. From 2021 to 2025, Pakistan’s position has improved by four places, showing a clear reduction in the perception of corruption over time.
The report highlights that Pakistan has taken strong and coordinated actions to control corruption during the last four years. In addition, Transparency International Pakistan released its own annual report in December 2025, stating that two out of three citizens did not face corruption or irregularities in government offices.
A recent IPSOS survey, published with the support of FPCCI, also supports this trend. It found that 67% of Pakistanis said they never faced corruption, and 76% said they never experienced nepotism.
Last year, 135 government departments implemented more than 600 successful reforms, according to the Pakistan Reforms Report released recently. Transparency International has stressed that institutional reforms are key to reducing corruption perceptions worldwide.
Overall, Pakistan has managed to achieve a four-rank improvement in four years, mainly due to ongoing institutional reforms and governance measures.