Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index scores Ireland at 74 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("highly clean"). When ranked by score, Ireland ranked 13th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. For comparison, the best score was 88 (ranked 1), and the worst score was 11 (ranked 180).