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Economies by Corruption Levels

Governments sometimes manipulate GDP data. For example GDP data can be manipulated through the calculation of price indexes. They can stop publishing important data prior to elections. They try to abolish independent statistics bureaus. They try to add questions that will bias responses to Census data. They leave in place price indexes known to be unreliable and impacting heavily and negatively on crucial pensions systems and so on.

The Transparency International Corruptions Perception Index is used as a proxy for assessing the level of government corruption for each economy.

The CPI values have been indexed by World Economics on a scale from 0-100 where 0 is absolute corruption and 100 is no perception of government corruption.

The table below shows the level of perceived corruption, ranked by least corrupt to most corrupt.


Oringal data source: Transparency International, Berlin, Index calculations by World Economics


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Rank		 Region
Rank		 World Economics
Corruption
Index (0-100)		 World Economics
Corruption
Grade: A-E
Denmark 1 1 100.0 A
New Zealand 2 1 96.7 A
Finland 3 2 96.7 A
Norway 4 3 93.3 A
Sweden 5 4 92.2 A
Singapore 6 2 92.2 A
Switzerland 7 5 91.1 A
Netherlands 8 6 88.9 A
Germany 9 7 87.8 A
Ireland 10 8 85.6 A
Luxembourg 11 9 85.6 A
Hong Kong 12 3 84.4 A
Australia 13 4 83.3 A
Estonia 14 10 82.2 A
Canada 15 1 82.2 A
Uruguay 16 2 82.2 A
Iceland 17 11 82.2 A
Japan 18 5 81.1 A
Belgium 19 12 81.1 A
United Kingdom 20 13 81.1 A
France 21 14 80.0 A
Austria 22 15 78.9 A
United States 23 3 76.7 A
Bhutan 24 6 75.6 A
Taiwan 25 7 75.6 A
United Arab Emirates 26 1 74.4 A
Chile 27 4 74.4 A
Bahamas, The 28 5 71.1 A
Korea, Rep. 29 8 70.0 A
Israel 30 2 70.0 A
Lithuania 31 16 68.9 A
Portugal 32 17 68.9 B
Spain 33 18 66.7 B
Botswana 34 1 66.7 B
Cabo Verde 35 2 66.7 B
Latvia 36 19 65.6 B
Qatar 37 3 64.4 B
Slovenia 38 20 62.2 B
Italy 39 21 62.2 B
Czech Republic 40 22 62.2 B
Georgia 41 23 62.2 B
Poland 42 24 61.1 B
Costa Rica 43 6 60.0 B
Slovak Republic 44 25 58.9 B
Cyprus 45 26 57.8 B
Greece 46 27 57.8 B
Saudi Arabia 47 4 56.7 B
Rwanda 48 3 56.7 B
Malta 49 28 56.7 B
Mauritius 50 4 55.6 B
Croatia 51 29 55.6 B
Namibia 52 5 54.4 B
Malaysia 53 9 52.2 B
Jordan 54 5 52.2 B
Armenia 55 30 51.1 B
Romania 56 31 51.1 B
China 57 10 50.0 B
Jamaica 58 7 48.9 B
Bahrain 59 6 48.9 B
Oman 60 7 48.9 B
Benin 61 6 47.8 B
Bulgaria 65 32 47.8 B
Senegal 64 9 47.8 C
South Africa 62 7 47.8 C
Ghana 63 8 47.8 C
Kuwait 66 8 46.7 C
Trinidad and Tobago 67 8 46.7 C
Hungary 68 33 46.7 C
Vietnam 69 11 46.7 C
Burkina Faso 70 10 46.7 C
North Macedonia 71 34 44.4 C
Guyana 72 9 44.4 C
Suriname 73 10 44.4 C
Tunisia 74 11 44.4 C
India 75 12 44.4 C
Colombia 76 11 43.3 C
Moldova 77 35 43.3 C
Belarus 78 36 43.3 C
Argentina 79 12 42.2 C
Ethiopia 80 12 42.2 C
Brazil 81 13 42.2 C
Morocco 82 13 42.2 C
Tanzania 83 14 42.2 C
Lesotho 84 15 41.1 C
Cote d'Ivoire 85 16 41.1 C
Ecuador 86 14 40.0 C
Peru 87 15 40.0 C
Serbia 88 37 40.0 C
Sri Lanka 89 13 40.0 C
Panama 90 16 40.0 C
Kazakhstan 92 14 40.0 C
Thailand 93 15 40.0 C
Albania 94 38 40.0 C
Turkey 91 9 40.0 D
Nepal 95 16 37.8 D
Indonesia 96 17 37.8 D
Malawi 97 17 37.8 D
Gambia 98 18 37.8 D
Bosnia and Herzegovina 99 39 37.8 D
Sierra Leone 100 19 37.8 D
Algeria 101 20 36.7 D
Ukraine 102 40 36.7 D
Mongolia 103 18 36.7 D
Philippines 104 19 36.7 D
Angola 105 21 36.7 D
Zambia 106 22 36.7 D
El Salvador 107 17 36.7 D
Niger 108 23 35.6 D
Kenya 109 24 35.6 D
Dominican Republic 110 18 35.6 D
Laos 111 20 34.4 D
Mexico 112 19 34.4 D
Uzbekistan 113 21 34.4 D
Bolivia 114 20 34.4 D
Mauritania 115 25 33.3 D
Eswatini 116 26 33.3 D
Egypt 117 27 33.3 D
Papua New Guinea 118 22 33.3 D
Togo 119 28 33.3 D
Gabon 120 29 32.2 D
Mali 121 30 31.1 D
Paraguay 122 21 31.1 D
Russia 123 41 31.1 D
Kyrgyzstan 124 23 30.0 D
Pakistan 125 24 30.0 E
Uganda 126 31 28.9 E
Cameroon 127 32 28.9 E
Liberia 128 33 28.9 E
Madagascar 129 34 28.9 E
Mozambique 130 35 28.9 E
Guinea 131 36 27.8 E
Bangladesh 132 25 27.8 E
Lebanon 133 10 26.7 E
Cambodia 134 26 26.7 E
Afghanistan 135 27 26.7 E
Nigeria 136 37 26.7 E
Guatemala 137 22 26.7 E
Central African Republic 138 38 26.7 E
Tajikistan 139 28 26.7 E
Honduras 140 23 25.6 E
Zimbabwe 141 39 25.6 E
Azerbaijan 142 29 25.6 E
Myanmar 143 30 25.6 E
Sudan 144 40 24.4 E
Congo, Rep. 145 41 23.3 E
Guinea-Bissau 146 42 23.3 E
Congo, Dem. Rep 147 43 22.2 E
Nicaragua 148 24 21.1 E
Chad 149 44 21.1 E
Turkmenistan 150 31 21.1 E
Comoros 151 45 21.1 E
Haiti 152 25 18.9 E
Burundi 153 46 18.9 E
Libya 154 47 18.9 E
Yemen, Rep. 155 11 17.8 E
Brunei Darussalam 156 32 0.0 U


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Category definitions:
         A: Very good
         B: Good
         C: Average
         D: Poor
         E: Very poor






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