Transparency International has released the Corruption Perceptions Index 2025, which shows an improvement in Pakistan’s overall performance.
According to the report, Pakistan has improved one rank to 136th position, while the country’s overall score has increased to 28. This progress has come as a result of good governance and continuous institutional reforms over the past few years, due to which the perception of corruption has continued to trend downward.
The Transparency International report states that not only have public sector and administrative corruption indicators improved in Pakistan, but there has also been a significant decrease in the perception of corruption in legislative institutions and the judiciary.
According to the report, an improvement of up to five points was seen in sensitive areas such as administrative corruption and judicial corruption, which is considered a significant development.
The report also states that in 2025, Transparency International added 2 more countries to its survey, after which a total of 182 countries were assessed for corruption perceptions, compared to 180 in 2024. The improvement in Pakistan’s position despite this broader survey is a sign that the effects of anti-corruption measures in the country are starting to be noticeable.
According to Transparency International, there has been an overall significant decline in the perception of corruption in Pakistan between 2021 and 2025, and Pakistan’s global ranking has improved by four places in the last 4 years.
The report said that Pakistan took concrete and coordinated steps to eradicate corruption, including institutional reforms, promoting transparency, and strengthening the accountability system.
The annual report published by Transparency International Pakistan in December 2025 also stated that two out of three citizens had never encountered corruption or irregularities in government institutions. Similarly, according to a report published by IPSOS in collaboration with FPCCI last week, 67 percent of Pakistanis said they had never encountered corruption, while 76 percent confirmed that they had never encountered nepotism.
The report further states that last year, 135 government agencies in Pakistan implemented more than 600 successful reforms, details of which were released in the Pakistan Reforms Report.
Transparency International, while emphasizing institutional reforms to reduce the perception of corruption globally, has said that Pakistan has been able to significantly improve the perception of corruption through these reforms in the last four years, which gives hope for further improvement in the future.
