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REPORTS AND INDICES
Top 10 most powerful countries - 2025
Forbes has published its 2025 list of the 10 most powerful nations in the world.
United States tops the world ranking with China coming in second and Israel completing the list as the tenth country.
Russia has a population of 84 million and a GDP of $2.2 trillion and has been ranked third.
This year United Kingdom is ranked number four with a GDP of $3.73 trillion.
Wilhelm has placed Germany at position five. It has an economy of $4.92 trillion.
India is considered a strong country among 12 powerful countries on the earth with GDP estimation of 3.55 trillion and a population of 1.43 billion.
Corruption index 2024.
Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2024 is published by Transparency International.
Top in the list was Denmark as the least-corrupt country, with Finland and Singapore coming in second and third position respectively.
India was placed in the 96th position out of 180 countries in its overall Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2024 score, falling a single point to 38.
It measures on a scale of 0 to 100 with zero being very corrupt and a 100 being very clean.
This compared to an overall score of 38 in India in 2024, 39 in 2023, and 40 in 2022.
India's rank in 2023 was 93.
China was ranked as 76th among the neighbours of India with Pakistan (135), Sri Lanka (121) and Bangladesh ranked much lower at 149.
At the bottom of the index were South Sudan and Somalia with a score of 8 and 9 respectively.
Venezuela and Syria were the most corrupt countries as well, with a score of 10 and 12.
The global mean of 43 has also remained the same over the years, with over two-thirds of the countries having a score below 50.
Bernhardt, 2024, Global Investment Trends Monitor, report.
This is according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its Global Investment Trends Monitor 2024 report released on Thursday.
It would have been 11% and would amount to around USD 1.4 trillion up to 2024 for Global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows.