LIST OF CORRUPTED COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD

India is the 94th 'most corrupt country' in the world for doing businesses, a new survey has revealed.

According to the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, created by Transparency International, India was ranked 94th, a step up from last year's ranking, while Russia was 133rd, 10 places higher than 2011.

The survey showed Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Sweden and Singapore topping the list as the 'cleanest countries' to do business in the world, CNN reports.

According to the report, Somalia, North Korea, Afghanistan, Sudan and Myanmar ranked at the bottom of the list.

The United States was ranked 19th in the world, below Japan and the UK and ahead of Chile and Uruguay, the survey noted.

The survey also noted that while China has become the world's second largest economy, doing business in that country is now perceived to be more corrupt, as it dropped five spots to 80th place out of 176 countries surveyed in the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index.

In Europe, Greece, whose ailing economy faces tough austerity measures to meet international standards to get bailout cash, plummeted to 94th place on the list, down from the 80th spot last year, the survey added. 

Haiti ranks 165 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 19 out of 100.
Haiti was struck by a massive earthquake in 2010, but the 2 billion dollars that came into Haiti as funds for the people inflicted by the earthquake was consumed by the rampant corruption practiced by the bureaucracy.

The 2011 Human Rights Report by the U.S. State Department found that corruption “remained widespread in all branches and at all levels of government” even after Haiti elected a new president in 2011. “In this country everything is money,” Chairman of the Port-au-Prince Bar Association Stanley Gaston said. “There isn’t value in any other thing. 

Haiti’s CPI score is 1.8 (ranked 175th), and they are plagued by the rampant corruption of the impenetrable bureaucracy.  

In September 2011, a renowned Iraqi journalist was murdered in his home because he was accused of leading anti government protests. 

Venezuela ranks 165 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 19 out of 100.

Venezuela has earned a CPI score of 1.9 and are ranked 172nd out of 182 countries of the world. The event that kicked off the country’s slide in to corruption was the discovery of vast amounts of oil and by the time the ’70s decade arrived, the Venezuelans had started calling the petroleum being mined as ”the Devil’s excrement”. 

Hugo Chavez came by in 1999 promising to remove corruption but did nothing to even slow it down as his movement was accused of the same ills as the movement before him; ills such as political patronage, cronyism, and of course, corruption. 

In Venezuela, even the police, the department appointed to protect the law, are notorious for their corruption and bribery.

Iraq ranks 169 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 18 out of 100. 

During the Saddam regime, the corruption was so rampant that anyone that so much as lifted a finger against the government was immediately captured and brutally murdered. Saddam and his son were quite infamous for their brutality and corruption. 

“Millions of dollars are being stolen, and some of this money is going to terrorist groups,” a former political exile told the BBC in 2009. “The government cannot win the war against the insurgency if it does not fight corruption first. And the war against corruption is much harder to win.”

Their CPI score is 1.8 and are ranked 175th.

Sudan ranks 173 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 13 out of 100.Sudan gets millions of dollars in aid for development to start the rebuilding process that has become a necessity in the country ravaged by years of war. 

But the aid funds seldom (read: almost never) go to the purposes of development and instead end up in private hands of the government officials and their foreign banks.

South Sudan produces half a million barrels per day, and the $10 billion in oil revenues collected since 2005 has funded nearly 98 percent of the government’s budget. But it has lost more than $4 billion due to public sector corruption since gaining self-rule in ’05.

Since the country gained self rule in 2005, no effort has been put into prosecuting the officials responsible for corruption despite a commission being set up for just this job. Sudan’s CPI score is 1.6 and are ranked at 177th.

Turkmenistan ranks 170 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 17 out of 100.
Turkmenistan spent 69 years under the Soviet Union and their time with the Soviets has left its effects on the government. 

Though the country declared independence in 1991, the totalitarian rule of the Soviets left its imprint and has led to a totalitarian control by the government of Turkmenistan. 

The people suffer intense human rights violations and face severe restrictions whenever they try leaving the country. It has the world’s third worst freedom of the press, and is the tenth most censored country in the world. Turkmenistan has a CPI of 1.6 and are ranked at 177.  

Uzbekistan ranks 170 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 17 out of 100. 

Uzbekistan is a country rich in resources, but the government does not allow for growth in the independent private sector as they keep control over all the resources. 

The government, infamous for its authoritarianism, is often called the root of all the corruption and the problems that arise as a result. 

According to a local businessman, the country’s half-hearted war on corruption reaped no results and there has been “no progress in the battle against corruption. The country and its society are corrupted through and through.” Turkmenistan’s CPI is 1.6 and its ranked at 177.

Afghanistan ranks 174 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 8 out of 10. 

Afghanistan is a state riddled with the the corruption of bribery. As recent as 2010, Afghani people paid around 2.5 billion dollars in bribes and nearly half the Afghan population had paid the country in kickbacks. 

Bribery and the menace of kickbacks are so commonplace in Afghanistan that 38 percent of the people consider it to be normal. 

Even meeting a politician, something that seems as simple as a normal talk or a handshake, involves giving kickbacks 40 percent of the time. Afghanistan’s CPI is 1.9 and is ranked 180th in the world.

Myanmar ranks 172 out of 182 countries and earned a score of 15 out of 100. 

Myanmar is rich in natural resources, a blessing that is more of a curse in this country riddled with drug rings and widespread corruption. 

In fact, these reasons have not only affected Myanmar, but has been considered the root of all problems in the Golden Triangle. 

After emerging from five decades of military rule in March 2011, Burma (Myanmar) drafted an anti-corruption law, state officials were told to repay embezzled funds and citizens were told to report bribery and corruption. But the country’s rich natural resources such as oil, timber and gems are still controlled by former military-regime insiders.

On top of all that, the country has been witness to brutal ethnic violence on a large scale and the human rights issues has had it isolated by most of the developed countries of the world. 

The country’s CPI is scored at 1.5 and is ranked 180th in the world tied with Afghanistan.

North Korea ranks 174 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 8 out of 100.

This picture shows the “great” leader of North Korea standing with his “happy” citizens having the time of their lives. Yeah, right! It is reported by the RFA that a Chinese national who snuck in and out of North Korea said, “In some places in North Korea, people are starving to death, but railway security agents wear Seiko watches and smoke [Craven A] cigarettes.” 

There is little foreign investment in North Korea, and the country is plagued by structural corruption in its political and bureaucratic system since the early 1990s when the Stalinist North Korea collapsed.

There is no reason why someone should even try going to North Korea, but even getting there requires payments of huge sums of money as bribes to officials. 

There is little that is known about North Korea, as once you’re in, you either get captured or find worse fates, or you pay huge bribes to escape, and the testimonies that shed any light on the conditions in North Korea are from the refugees who either paid bribes to escapes or snuck out some other dangerous way. The CPI score, based on what is known, is a lowly 1 and they are ranked at the second last spot, 181st.

Somalia ranks 174 out of 174 countries and earned a score of 8 out of 100.

If it weren’t for the fact that Somalia is even considered a country, some circles believe it shouldn’t be considered as such unless at least a stable shadow of a government is present, it wouldn’t even be on this list. 

The state and the officials, however they are, are so infested with the malice of corruption and brutal violence that it is ranked at the very last among the countries in the world, and by some circles, it is not even considered a country. 

The corruption and violence was sparked when the US and the USSR used Somalia as a battleground for the political ideologies and backed clans and militias into fighting for their respective sides. Funding from the US really kicked off the particular Siad Barre regime which took corruption to a whole new level. 

Since the oust of the regime in 1991, Somalia has been essentially lawless and has no government except for parts being governed and fought over by different clans and militias and the coastal areas are riddled by pirates.

According to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index, Somalia is the world’s most corrupt country, highlighting the convergence of conflict and corruption.

 Their CPI is the lowest 1 and for that, Somalia earns the top spot in being the most corrupt country in the world as of 2012.

List of most corrupt countries

Rank Name Percentage 1 Sierra Leone 84 2 Liberia 75 3 Yemen 74 4 Kenya 70 5 Cameroon 62 6 Libya 62 7 Mozambique 62 8 Zimbabwe 62 9 Uganda 61 10 Cambodia 57 11 Senegal 57 12 Tanzania 56 13 Ghana 54 14 India 54 15 Morocco 49 16 South Africa 47 17 Afghanistan 46 18 DR Congo 46 19 Kyrgyzstan 45 20 Mongolia 45 21 Ethiopia 44 22 Nigeria 44 23 Algeria 41 24 Bangladesh 39 25 South Sudan 39 26 Jordan 37 27 Ukraine 37 28 Bolivia 36 29 Egypt 36 30 Indonesia 36 31 Taiwan 36 32 Kazakhstan 34 33 Pakistan 34 34 Solomon Islands 34 35 Mexico 33 36 Nepal 31 37 Vietnam 30 38 Iraq 29 39 Moldova 29 40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 28 41 Madagascar 28 42 Papua New Guinea 27 43 Venezuela 27 44 Lithuania 26 45 Serbia 26 46 Paraguay 25 47 Colombia 22 48 Greece 22

Rank Name Percentage 49 Slovakia 21 50 Turkey 21 51 Peru 20 52 Cyprus 19 53 Latvia 19 54 Sri Lanka 19 55 Armenia 18 56 Thailand 18 57 Tunisia 18 58 Macedonia 17 59 Romania 17 60 Sudan 17 61 Kosovo 16 62 Czech Republic 15 63 Argentina 13 64 Rwanda 13 65 Vanuatu 13 66 El Salvador 12 67 Hungary 12 68 Israel 12 69 Jamaica 12 70 Palestine 12 71 Philippines 12 72 Chile 10 73 Bulgaria 8 74 Switzerland 7 75 US 7 76 Estonia 6 77 Slovenia 6 78 Italy 5 79 UK 5 80 Belgium 4 81 Croatia 4 82 Georgia 4 83 Canada 3 84 Malaysia 3 85 Maldives 3 86 New Zealand 3 87 Norway 3 88 Portugal 3 89 South Korea 3 90 Uruguay 3 91 Spain 2 92 Australia 1 93 Denmark 1 94 Finland 1 95 Japan 1