Malaysia fell to its worst ranking!-Corruption Perception Index(CPI)

Malaysia fell to its worst ranking and score in 15 years in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2009. Malaysia plunged nine places from last year's 47th CPI ranking to 56th position. Malaysia's CPI score plunged to the lowest in 15 years to 4.5. Its previous worst scores were 4.8 in 2000 and 4.9 in 2002.

Year	Ranking	Score	No of countries
2001	36	5.0	91
2002	33	4.9	102
2003	37	5.2	133
2004	39	5.0	146
2005	39	5.1	159
2006	44	5.0	179
2007	43	5.1	180
2008	47	5.1	180
2009	56	4.5	180

Highest scorers in the 2009 CPI were New Zealand at 9.4, Denmark at 9.3, Singapore and Sweden tied at 9.2 and Switzerland at 9.0.

A Merdeka Centre poll in September and October this year found that 74 per cent of Malaysians were dissatisfied with the government’s handling of graft and 67 per cent were also unhappy with how the administration dealt with social problems.