Corruption is a serious and growing problem for doing business in Nicaragua.[1]
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Nicaragua a score of 17 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Nicaragua ranked 172nd among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.[2] For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 11 (ranked 180).[3] For comparison with regional scores, the highest score among the countries of the Americas[Note 1] was 76, the average score was 43 and the lowest score was 13.[4]
According to Freedom House, since the election of Daniel Ortega in 2006, corruption had increased in Nicaragua.[5] Nicaragua is ranked 133 of 140 countries in the World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index (2022).[6]
- ^ "CPI 2023 for the Americas: Lack of Independent Judiciary Hinders the Fight Against Corruption". Transparency.org. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "The ABCs of the CPI: How the Corruption Perceptions Index is calculated". Transparency.org. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Corruption Perceptions Index 2023: Nicaragua". Transparency.org. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Corruption Perceptions Index 2023: Americas". Transparency.org. CPI2023_Map_Americas_EN.pdf. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
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