In recent years the CPI has covered about 50 countries, but this year the total is 85 – how has it been possible to attain such an increase?
The first point is that, even with 85 countries, the CPI is still capturing less than one- half of the total number of sovereign countries in the world. To be sure, all major trading countries are ranked in the CPI and a very substantial number of countries outside of the OECD, which obtain significant foreign capital inflows, are also listed. However, TI sees it as a priority to strive to accurately include as many countries as possible. The increase this year arose as several CPI sources increased their country coverage and we were able to include the Economic Intelligence Unit’s data for the first time. In addition, the Steering Committee agreed that we could reduce the minimum number of sources needed per country assessment from 4 (in 1996 and 1997) to 3. This change had a statistically insignificant impact on the scores. To the extent that the CPI still does not include many countries, it is because an insufficient number of surveys had been conducted.
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