Perceived Transparency Ranking – Cambodia has consistently been ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world for a while now. According to the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index its rank is 162 out of 180 countries and has a score of 20 of 100. It has the third lowest score in Asia Pacific and the lowest score in the ASEAN region. Cambodia has tried to reduce its corruption and has taken some positive steps to reduce sectoral corruption by decreasing petty corruption and increasing revenue collection from taxes and custom services. However, it needs to reduce grand and political corruption because unless this is done it would curb development and long-term investors would hesitate to start their business in Cambodia.