Corruption in Haiti occurs at one of the worst rates in the world. Corruption is a scourge that corrodes all attempts to establish a rule of law, a sustainable democracy, and to improve the quality of life of Haiti's people.Haiti's score on Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index is 20 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("highly clean"). When ranked by score, Haiti ranked number 164 among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked number 1 is perceived to have the most honest public sector.