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[TheRealTalker]

Tis the time of surveys... and today we got the corruption index of world countries tallied by Transparency International.

Full Charts, Maps, Stories, Investigation, and downloads HERE: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015

Top 10 least corrupt countries:

1. Denmark
2. Finland
3. Sweden
4. New Zealand
5. Netherlands
6. Norway
7. Switzerland
8. Singapore
9. Canada
10. Germany, Luxembourg, United Kingdom

Top 10 most corrupt countries:

1. Somalia, North Korea
2. Afghanistan
3. Sudan
4. South Sudan, Angola
5. Libya, Iraq
6. Venezuela, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti
7. Yemen, Turkmenistan, Syria, Eritrea
8. Uzbekistan
9. Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Burundi
10. Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad

"The 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index clearly shows that corruption remains a blight around the world. But 2015 was also a year when people again took to the streets to protest corruption. People across the globe sent a strong signal to those in power: it is time to tackle grand corruption."

José Ugaz,
Chair, Transparency International

MORE THAN 6 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN COUNTRIES WITH A SERIOUS CORRUPTION PROBLEM
Poor countries lose US$1 trillion a year to corruption. It’s time for justice

WHICH COUNTRIES IMPROVED? WHICH GOT WORSE?

2015 showed that people working together can succeed in fighting corruption. Although corruption is still rife globally, more countries improved their scores in 2015 than declined.
Some countries have improved in recent years – Greece, Senegal and the UK are among those that have seen a significant increase in scores since 2012.
Others, including Australia, Brazil, Libya, Spain and Turkey, have deteriorated.
Dealing with many entrenched corruption issues, Brazil has been rocked by the Petrobras scandal, in which politicians are reported to have taken kickbacks in exchange for awarding public contracts. As the economy crunches, tens of thousands of ordinary Brazilians have lost their jobs already. They didn’t make the decisions that led to the scandal. But they’re the ones living with the consequences.

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LOWEST SCORERS CHARACTERISED BY BLOODY AND ENTRENCHED CONFLICT

Five of the 10 most corrupt countries also rank among the 10 least peaceful places in the world.
In Afghanistan, millions of dollars that should have gone on reconstruction have been reportedly wasted or stolen, seriously undermining efforts to sustain peace.
Even where there’s not open conflict, the levels of inequality and poverty in these countries are devastating.
In Angola, 70 per cent of the population live on US$2 a day or less. One in six children die before the age of five – making it the deadliest place in the world to be a child. More than 150,000 children die each year. But not everyone’s suffering.
Dubbed Africa’s youngest billionaire, Isabel dos Santos made her US$3.4 billion fortune from the national diamond and telecommunications business. She’s also the president’s daughter.

MANY “CLEAN” COUNTRIES HAVE DODGY RECORDS OVERSEAS

Northern Europe emerges well in the index – it’s home to four of the top five countries.
But just because a country has a clean public sector at home, doesn’t mean it isn’t linked to corruption elsewhere.
Take Sweden for instance. It comes third in the index, yet the Swedish-Finnish firm TeliaSonera – 37 per cent owned by the Swedish state – is facing allegations that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to secure business in Uzbekistan, which comes in at 153rd in the index.
The company is now pulling out of business in Central Asia, but Sweden isn’t the only “clean” country to be linked to dodgy behaviour overseas. As our research shows, half of all OECD countries are violating their international obligations to crack down on bribery by their companies abroad.

Again more stuff in the link above....

 

[Kinitari]

Nice, they give you a json file with the data. Maybe I'll use it in an app.

 

[TheRealTalker]

yeah they do this every year

nice info that is accessible to the public