The Berlin-based non-profit group released its 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index Tuesday but Maldives is not on the list. The Maldives also did not appear on the list last year due to incomplete survey information. Transparency International's annual list is the most widely used indicator of sleaze in political parties, police, justice systems and civil services, a scourge which undermines development and the fight against poverty. The list is compiled using data from agencies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Information from at least three agencies is required for any country to be included in the list. It then ranks countries on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means a country’s public sector is considered highly corrupt and 100 means it is regarded as very clean. Aiman Rasheed, Advocacy Manager at Transparency Maldives, told Haveeru that only two agencies provided information to the survey at the time of its publication. He said many issues were responsible for the Maldives being absent from the In 2011, the Maldives was ranked 143 with a score of 2.5 whilst it received a ranking of 134 with a score of 2.3 the previous year. Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia are seen as the world's most corrupt countries whilst Denmark and New Zealand are nearly squeaky-clean this year. According to the survey, almost 70 percent of nations worldwide are thought to have a "serious problem" with public servants on the take, and none of the 177 countries surveyed this year got a perfect score. Among countries that have slipped the most in 2013 are war-torn Syria as well as Libya and Mali, which have also faced major military conflict in recent years.