The Transparency International's 2013 Corruption Perceptions
Index, has revealed that Denmark and New Zealand are the least corrupt nations
in the world. While Germany came in 12th, one notch better than 2012. Japan
slipped one place to 18 and the United States and China were unchanged from
2012 levels at 19th and 80th place respectively.
Transparency International ranks countries by their perceived
levels of public sector corruption.
The index assigns scores of between one and 100, 1 being highly
corrupt and 100 clean.
Here is a list of the 10 most corrupt and the 10 least corrupt
nations, according to the index:
MOST CORRUPT
|
LEAST CORRUPT
|
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RANK
|
COUNTRY
|
SCORE
|
RANK
|
COUNTRY
|
SCORE
|
175
|
Somalia
|
8
|
1
|
Denmark
|
91
|
175
|
North Korea
|
8
|
1
|
New Zealand
|
91
|
175
|
Afghanistan
|
8
|
3
|
Finland
|
89
|
174
|
Sudan
|
11
|
3
|
Sweden
|
89
|
173
|
South Sudan
|
14
|
5
|
Norway
|
86
|
172
|
Libya
|
15
|
5
|
Singapore
|
86
|
171
|
Iraq
|
16
|
7
|
Switzerland
|
85
|
168
|
Uzbekistan
|
17
|
8
|
Netherland
|
83
|
168
|
Turkmenistan
|
17
|
9
|
Australia
|
81
|
168
|
Syria
|
17
|
9
|
Canada
|
81
|
Yes, Nigeria didn't make the list in any of the categories. This means it ain't so bad.
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