Corruption deep-rooted in global government

Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index says little progress in being made to combat fraud and dishonesty

CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX, 2017 (longer bars are better)
Perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people in 180 countries and territories (0 is highly corrupt, 100 is very clean)


100
 80
 60
 40
 20
  0

89
88
85
85
85
84
84
82
82
82

Very clean
Scale of global corruption 
Chart detail
Clean
corrupt

Highly  Corrupt
17 17 17 17 16 16 15 14 12 9
              
     
New Zealand
Denmark 
Finland
Norway 
Switzerland
Singapore 
Sweden
Canada 
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Equatorial Guinea 
Guinea-Bissau
North Korea 
Libya
Sudan 
Yemen
Afghanistan 
Syria
South Sudan
Somalia

  Source: Transparency International
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