In 2024, Albania was ranked 80th among 180 countries in the Index, an improvement from its 98th place in the previous year.
According to Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index, SPAK has gained public trust by prosecuting high-level officials, including former ministers, members of Parliament, and mayors.
Liberalization has brought both mainly negative effects to the politics, economy and other social aspect.
Empirical research of Hysa (2011) reveals that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between corruption indexes and human development.
In the Albanian case, the relationship between corruption and human development is found to be much stronger than in the EU countries.