Mozambique has dropped five places and is the 35th most corrupt state among the 49 countries considered in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report released today by the non-governmental organization Transparency International.

This year's edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), quoted by DW, points out that Mozambique has moved up to 147th out of 180 on the Corruption Perception Index, scoring 25 points on a scale of zero to 100.

Mozambique's trend over the last five years has seen it lose one point and over the last 11 years it has lost six.

The CPI was created by Transparency International in 1995 and has since become a benchmark for analyzing the phenomenon of corruption, based on the perception of experts and business executives about the levels of corruption in the public sector.

It is a composite index, i.e. it is the result of combining sources of analysis of corruption developed by other independent organizations, and ranks 180 countries and territories from zero (perceived as very corrupt) to 100 points (very transparent).

In 2012, the organization revised the methodology used to construct the index so that scores could be compared from one year to the next.