Sri Lanka ranked 95th place of Transparency International's newest Corruption Index.

With financial issues such as alleged 'bondscam', the incumbent good governance government put into grave danger in international level without a doubt.

New Zealand ranked the top of the index.

South Korea was rocked by corruption scandals in 2016 making bottom of the list at the number 174.

President Park Guen-hye was impeached by Parliament for corruption with alleged involvement of almost every major Korean corporation.

This suggests that corruption at the highest levels of government and business is a critical issue in 2017 and their slight 3-point drop to 53 out of 100 may be indicative of perceptions to come.

China increased by 3 points but remains at the poor score of 40 out of 100.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister has long been embroiled in the 1MBD corruption scandal with an unexplainable US$700 million in his personal bank account, contributing to the country's lacklustre score of 49 out of 100.

The majority of Asia Pacific countries sit in the bottom half of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2016. 19 out of 30 countries in the region scored 40 or less out of 100.

India has been ranked 79th on CPI 2016.

Sri Lanka shares the rank with neighboring Maldives.