Also ranked at position 145 alongside Kenya are Bangladesh, Cameroon, The Gambia, Madagascar and Nicaragua.
It means Kenya has dropped six places from its previous ranking at position 139 in the 2015 index.
Last year, TI had blamed Kenya’s continued dismal performance on the incompetence and ineffectiveness of anti-corruption agencies, saying that the failure to punish individuals implicated in graft had been a major stumbling block.
Denmark tops the list of the ten least corrupt countries in the world followed by New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Singapore, Holland, Canada and Germany.
At the tail end of the list is Somalia, ranked the world’s most corrupt country.
It is followed by South Sudan, North Korea, Syria and Libya, suggesting the direct correlation between corruption and political instability.
Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe are the most improved African countries in the 2016 index.