Corruption statistics - countries compared

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	Iceland:	9.7
= 2	Finland:	9.6
= 2	New Zealand:	9.6
# 4	Denmark:	9.5
# 5	Singapore:	9.4
# 6	Sweden:	9.2
# 7	Switzerland:	9.1
# 8	Norway:	8.9
# 9	Australia:	8.8
# 10	Austria:	8.7
= 11	United Kingdom:	8.6
= 11	Netherlands:	8.6
# 13	Luxembourg:	8.5
# 14	Canada:	8.4
# 15	Hong Kong:	8.3
# 16	Germany:	8.2
# 17	United States:	7.6
# 18	France:	7.5
= 19	Ireland:	7.4
= 19	Belgium:	7.4
= 21	Japan:	7.3
= 21	Chile:	7.3
# 23	Spain:	7
# 24	Barbados:	6.9
# 25	Malta:	6.6
# 26	Portugal:	6.5
# 27	Estonia:	6.4
= 28	Oman:	6.3
= 28	Israel:	6.3
# 30	United Arab Emirates:	6.2
# 31	Slovenia:	6.1
= 32	Qatar:	5.9
= 32	Uruguay:	5.9
= 32	Taiwan:	5.9
= 32	Botswana:	5.9
# 36	Bahrain:	5.8
= 37	Cyprus:	5.7
= 37	Jordan:	5.7
# 39	Malaysia:	5.1
= 40	Hungary:	5
= 40	Korea, South:	5
= 40	Italy:	5
# 43	Tunisia:	4.9
# 44	Lithuania:	4.8
# 45	Kuwait:	4.7
# 46	South Africa:	4.5
= 47	Czech Republic:	4.3
= 47	Namibia:	4.3
= 47	Slovakia:	4.3
= 47	Greece:	4.3
= 51	Costa Rica:	4.2
= 51	Mauritius:	4.2
= 51	Latvia:	4.2
= 51	El Salvador:	4.2
= 55	Bulgaria:	4
= 55	Colombia:	4
= 55	Fiji:	4
= 55	Seychelles:	4
= 59	Thailand:	3.8
= 59	Cuba:	3.8
= 59	Trinidad and Tobago:	3.8
= 62	Brazil:	3.7
= 62	Belize:	3.7
# 64	Jamaica:	3.6
= 65	Peru:	3.5
= 65	Ghana:	3.5
= 65	Mexico:	3.5
= 65	Panama:	3.5
= 65	Turkey:	3.5
= 70	Egypt:	3.4
= 70	Saudi Arabia:	3.4
= 70	Croatia:	3.4
= 70	Poland:	3.4
= 70	Burkina Faso:	3.4
= 70	Syria:	3.4
= 70	Lesotho:	3.4
# 77	Laos:	3.3
= 78	Senegal:	3.2
= 78	Sri Lanka:	3.2
= 78	China:	3.2
= 78	Suriname:	3.2
= 78	Morocco:	3.2
= 83	Lebanon:	3.1
= 83	Rwanda:	3.1
= 85	Dominican Republic:	3
= 85	Mongolia:	3
= 85	Romania:	3
= 88	Benin:	2.9
= 88	India:	2.9
= 88	Tanzania:	2.9
= 88	Gabon:	2.9
= 88	Armenia:	2.9
= 88	Iran:	2.9
= 88	Bosnia and Herzegovina:	2.9
= 88	Mali:	2.9
= 88	Moldova:	2.9
= 97	Malawi:	2.8
= 97	Argentina:	2.8
= 97	Serbia and Montenegro:	2.8
= 97	Madagascar:	2.8
= 97	Algeria:	2.8
= 97	Mozambique:	2.8
= 103	Gambia, The:	2.7
= 103	Yemen:	2.7
= 103	Swaziland:	2.7
= 103	Macedonia, Republic of:	2.7
= 107	Ukraine:	2.6
= 107	Zimbabwe:	2.6
= 107	Eritrea:	2.6
= 107	West Bank:	2.6
= 107	Gaza Strip:	2.6
= 107	Nicaragua:	2.6
= 107	Honduras:	2.6
= 107	Vietnam:	2.6
= 107	Kazakhstan:	2.6
= 107	Belarus:	2.6
= 107	Zambia:	2.6
= 118	Nepal:	2.5
= 118	Guyana:	2.5
= 118	Bolivia:	2.5
= 118	Afghanistan:	2.5
= 118	Ecuador:	2.5
= 118	Libya:	2.5
= 118	Uganda:	2.5
= 118	Philippines:	2.5
= 118	Guatemala:	2.5
= 127	Albania:	2.4
= 127	Niger:	2.4
= 127	Russia:	2.4
= 127	Sierra Leone:	2.4
= 131	Congo, Republic of the:	2.3
= 131	Venezuela:	2.3
= 131	Cambodia:	2.3
= 131	Georgia:	2.3
= 131	Burundi:	2.3
= 131	Papua New Guinea:	2.3
= 131	Kyrgyzstan:	2.3
= 138	Azerbaijan:	2.2
= 138	Iraq:	2.2
= 138	Cameroon:	2.2
= 138	Indonesia:	2.2
= 138	Ethiopia:	2.2
= 138	Uzbekistan:	2.2
= 138	Liberia:	2.2
= 145	Congo, Democratic Republic of the:	2.1
= 145	Kenya:	2.1
= 145	Sudan:	2.1
= 145	Paraguay:	2.1
= 145	Somalia:	2.1
= 145	Pakistan:	2.1
= 145	Tajikistan:	2.1
# 152	Angola:	2
= 153	Côte d'Ivoire:	1.9
= 153	Nigeria:	1.9
= 153	Equatorial Guinea:	1.9
= 156	Turkmenistan:	1.8
= 156	Haiti:	1.8
= 156	Burma:	1.8
= 159	Bangladesh:	1.7
= 159	Chad:	1.7
	Weighted average:	4.1

DEFINITION: A CPI Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt). Includes police corruption, business corruption, political corruption, etc. Data for 2005.

SOURCE: Transparency International

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COMMENTARY

shittu 20th November 2009	Is Afganistan,Iraq,and all the so called corrupt nations of the world,is the american system inposed on those nation that is corrupt and not the Nations
A Person 18th November 2009	Hasib, Maybe you should redefine your definition of corruption. Is it because these industrialized countries were so corrupt that these events happened? I do not agree with your comment.
jared 17th November 2009	I don't know where you got this list from but it's not the same one they've been discussing on BBC or CNN. The countries listed are not in the right order or with the same stats.
Hasib 18th October 2009	The industrialized nations are the most corrupt nations on the face of earth. They have brought the curse of World war 1 and 2, colonialism, Global financial crisis and have almost destroyed the earth's climate. This so called 'statistics' is a joke.
Bill Wells 22nd September 2009	I think that the worst thing about our system of government in the USA is that our leaders LEGALIZE and PROMOTE corruption, as is evident with lobbyists. Also, our elected leaders enact laws that make it difficult to unseat them; they think that, once elected, its a lifetime job. Many, or most, of our congressmen/women are lawyers and they enact laws favoring their legal cronies. I could go on and on, but this is enough for now.
Natane 10th September 2009	Good Day. The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. I am from Marino and learning to read in English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "The branch that sassoon was ultra was specifically exercising to the growth of african americans, wetting itself furthermore knew practice." Best regards :), Natane.
Maximilian 9th September 2009	Hi guys. You create your opportunities by asking for them. I am from Tanzania and too poorly know English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "In efficiency, avon has spent its strategic cosmetics and identical well-being standards usually for enterprises." :D Thanks in advance. Maximilian.
Alberta 6th September 2009	Hi. Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. I am from Italy and also now teach English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "There have been existing income way shares that have traded in the space of banks of sellers and broker trade on a fair money." THX :-(, Alberta.
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Park 5th September 2009	Hi all. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. I am from Indonesia and know bad English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "The chief wheat is to fund a advertising which has often used recent share, or now make on collective share." Thanks :o. Park.
Joe 2nd September 2009	Its a bit confusing, but the higher the score the less perceived corruption. So yes, the lower the rank the more corrupt. See their definition below the rankings.
Taps 21st August 2009	Wow this list is corrupted.
Loren 11th August 2009	So are the countries towards the bottom rankings, the most corrupt?
Lari 7th July 2009	Good morning. The average person thinks he isn't. I am from Poland and also now teach English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: "You wonder what the future holds, whether you be able to fulfill your wish to have children and how to accomplish your goal of building a family." Waiting for a reply :p, Lari.
Hadara 7th July 2009	Good morning. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. I am from Estonia and learning to speak English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "Lesbian couple family building by justin dimateoas a part of a lesbian couple you experience the same concerns as individuals in any other relationship." With love ;), Hadara.
Wayne Kerr 23rd June 2009	You have got to be kidding!!! That figure for india is so obviously wrong, they are the most corrupt bunch of people on the planet!! So how do you determine a corruption rate? It's not like those involved want everyone to know about it, do they?
Madhukar 25th May 2009	Good
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Namus 12th May 2009	My copyright is violated. My defamed state is defamation
Bangladesh president 24th April 2009	We are not corrupt! AHHH!
Theo Purwanto (Jakarta) 24th June 2006	What is level the corruption of government of Indonesia?
Alanah 2nd November 2005	I love this site it is SOOOOOO awsome i go on it every day.
fatima 1st November 2005	hi readerz this web page iz full of information but i think the crime rate of pakistan iz increasing day by day
Grace 17th October 2005	Serbia and Montenegro are two parts of the former Yugoslavia. Other parts have become independent nations (Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia/Hertzogovenia) but the futures of Montenegro and Macedonia are uncertain. Serbia was the master of all and doesn't want to lose any more people or land. With Slovenia and Croatia now independent, Serbia has lost its only access to the sea (i.e. they are landlocked yet again). Since this was one of the many contributing factors that led to World War I, it should be taken seriously. He who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it. I wonder what happens to those who also do not learn geography? If you can't pronounce the name of a country, can't locate it on a map, and don't understand a little about its history then you shouldn't bomb, invade or interfere in its internal affairs. If you can pronounce Israel correctly, why can't you pronounce Iraq or Iran? The initial sound is the same. When television anchorpeople don't bother to pronounce properly, there isn't much hope for the ignorant masses. I wonder what would happen if one of them mispronounced Israel as "Eyesreal"? Would people keep quiet or would they do something about it? I think we all know the answer to that one. Well, Iraq is not "Eyerack" -- it is "Earrock"; Iran is not "Eyeran" -- it is "Earron"
SANLORENZO 17th June 2005	JUST THIS SITE IS A brainwashing web site. I don't believe in this data. Coincidentially, the most corrupsts countries are Ecuador, Venezuela, Iraq, and so. In other words, juts the countres in which United States has difficulties to have the control of the local monopolies. I don't know why this site is taking as a gospel for politicians or "researchers". An advice, please, if you want to talk about some particular country, go there and look the reality, NO THE STEREOTYPE or the CLASIFICATION according Uncle SAM. (American government always have his parcialized point of view).
Vonada 5th June 2005	What a meaningless statistic this is... This is trying to put numbers to something that numbers don't much apply. As for halliburton, the company is not corrupt in the least. Most certainly it would be more accurate to say the US gov't is corrupt, but even then, compared to governments in Eduador, Cuba, Colombia? Not at al
Cirap 25th May 2005	What about Rwandad? Is it so corrupted or not? If yes, what's the rate?
Cirap 25th May 2005	What about Rwandad? Is it so corrupted or not? If yes, what's the rate?
Edria Murray Staff Editor 7th May 2005	There are many different forms of government corruption and every country is likely to be affected to some degree. Definitions of government corruption include: Large sums of money being donated to a political party by multinational corporations and large organisations to encourage the party to govern in their favour. New members of parliament being instructed to follow party dictates rather than the views of the electorate they represent. Policies which are controlled by groups outside of the poliical party. Policies developed by a party after they are in power which differ considerably from the policies stated by the party before the election. Mis-use of government funds to achieve personal gain rather than the gain of the country or economy. Corruption is more common in countries which have low political competition, few government accountability mechanisms, and few economic opportunities. If political opportunities outweigh economic opportunities, people will enter politics in order to make money which causes corruption to increase. Government corruption has profound effects on the country as a whole. Countries with a high level of government corruption will typically have a low GDP (gross domestic product) per capita, a low level of innovation and a low level of healthcare spending. This statistic is based on the perception of people in the country and as activities which are considered corrupt in some countries may be considered acceptable in others, these values do not necessarily measure the true level of corruption.
James Staff editor 11th March 2005	Corruption affects a country in numerous ways. "Corruption in elections and in legislative bodies reduces accountability and representation in policymaking; corruption in the judiciary suspends the rule of law; and corruption in public administration results in the unequal provision of services (source). The World Bank argues that corruption "increases public investment while decreasing its quality and productivity", leaving the government less money to invest in infrastructure, health and education. Higher levels of corruption also dissuade companies from investing in a country, further hindering economic development.">Corruption has an inverse relationship with economic development - that is the lower a countries GDP per capita the more likely it is to figure highly on the corruption index. Some people believe that corruption is a result of a poor economy, and at least one study has found that increasing per capita income in a country would reduce corruption. However, the World Bank argues that corruption is a cause of low economic development - or at the very least contributes to low economic growth. Although many factors affect economic growth, it is telling that the most corrupt countries are amongst the world's poorest while the least corrupt countries are amongst the world's richest. Countries that are perceived to have high levels of corruption also tend to be in the lower half of the Human Development Index.
James Staff editor 10th March 2005	Corruption has an inverse relationship with economic development - that is the lower a countries GDP per capita the more likely it is to figure highly on the corruption index. Some people believe that corruption is a result of a poor economy, and at least one study has found that increasing per capita income in a country would reduce corruption. However, the World Bank argues that corruption is a cause of low economic development - or at the very least contributes to low economic growth. Although many factors affect economic growth, it is telling that the most corrupt countries are amongst the world's poorest while the least corrupt countries are amongst the world's richest. Countries that are perceived to have high levels of corruption also tend to be in the lower half of the Human Development Index. Corruption affects a country in numerous ways. "Corruption in elections and in legislative bodies reduces accountability and representation in policymaking; corruption in the judiciary suspends the rule of law; and corruption in public administration results in the unequal provision of services (source). The World Bank argues that corruption "increases public investment while decreasing its quality and productivity", leaving the government less money to invest in infrastructure, health and education. Higher levels of corruption also dissuade companies from investing in a country, further hindering economic development.

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