Papua New Guinea has improved its ranking in Transparency International's newly released global corruption index.
Corruption in the world. Yellow for the least corruption, darker red for most corruption. Photo: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016
The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
It uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
With a score of just 29, PNG is ranked at 135th, which is still an improvement of 15 places over five years.
The only other Pacific Island countries in this year's rankings are Vanuatu at 71st with a score of 43, and Solomon Islands at 85th with 39.
New Zealand was ranked the top country, with 89 points.
Somalia was ranked last.
