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China at No. 89 in the RTI Rating

The transparency law of China has been in force since 2007 and with it has earned 75 points in the Global Right to Information Rating (RTI Rating). With that score China is now ranked 89 in the transparency ranking formed by 136 countries, meaning it is among those that must improve its laws in order to guarantee access to information.

This index ranks countries giving them a score of 0-150 depending on the strength of its legal framework which guarantees the right to information.

In the next table you can also see the scores obtained by China in each of the groups that make up the index. Access the list with the classification of all countries by clicking on RTI Rating and the economic information for China by clicking on Economy of China.


China - Global Right to Information Rating
DateRTI RakingYear RTI lawAccessScopeRequestingExceptionsAppealsSanctionsPromotionRTI Rating
202289º2,00721317151241275
202187º2,00721317151241275
202097º2,00721316151041070
201987º2,00711218151311373
201884º2,00711218151311373
201777º2,00711218151311373
201680º2,00711116151311370
201472º2,00711116151311370
201364º2,00711118151311372
201262º2,00711118151311372
201155º2,00711118151311372
China - Global Right to Information Rating
China - Global Right to Information Rating
Reproduced with permission from the Global RTI Rating, a joint project of the Centre for Law and Democracy and Access Info Europe. The Global RTI Rating database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).