On December 3, 2013, Transparency International released its 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranks countries and territories based on the perceived level of corruption of their public sectors. Each country or territory is given a numeric score ranging from zero to one hundred, where zero means a country is perceived as highly corrupt and one hundred means a country is perceived as very clean. The 2013 Index includes 177 countries and territories. Afghanistan, North Korea, and Somalia were ranked the most corrupt, while Finland, New Zealand, and Denmark were ranked the least. This Index has been issued annually since 1995, and the Transparency International website states that “the Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 serves as a reminder that the abuse of power, secret dealings and bribery continue to ravage societies around the world.”