Top 10 Corrupt Country in the World

This list, most corrupt countries in the world, is based on the Transparency International's annual review 2016 which includes mix of government and business sources for its rankings known as Corruption Perceptions Index which ranks countries with a score from 0 to 100 where 100 means the most least corrupted countries and 0 means the highest corrupted country. Means those countries which have got less score, they are more corrupted. This data derived by taking into consideration the poor governance and weak institutions.

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1. Somalia - 10 CPI
2. South Sudan - 11 CPI
3. North Korea - 12 CPI
4. Syria - 13 CPI
5. Yemen, Sudan and Libya - 14 CPI
6. Afghanistan - 15 CPI
7. Guinea-Bissau - 16 CPI
8. Venezuela and Iraq - 17 CPI
9. Eritrea and Angola - 18 CPI
10. Republic of Congo, Haiti, Chad, Central African Republic, Burundi -20CPI
11. Uzbekistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Cambodia - 21 CPI
12. Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan - 22 CPI
13. Comoros - 24 CPI
14. Uganda and Tajikistan - 25 CPI
15. Nicaragua, Madagascar, Kenya, Gambia, Cameroon and Bangladesh-26CPI
16. Mozambique, Mauritania and Guinea - 27 CPI
17. Papua NewGuinea, Nigeria, Myanmar, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan and Guatemala - 28 CPI
18. Ukraine, Russia, Nepal, Kazakhstan and Iran - 29 CPI
19. Sierra Leone, Paraguay, Moldova, Mexico, Laos, Honduras, Djibouti and Azerbaijan - 31 CPI
20. Malawi, Ecuador and Dominican Republic - 32 CPI

However, if you are also interested to find out the list of most least corrupt countries world wide, then you can find them listed as below where No.1 denotes the least corrupt country world wide.

The list of top 20 most least corrupt countries world wide in 2016:-

1. Denmark and New Zealand -  90 CPI
2. Finland - 89 CPI
3. Sweden - 88 CPI
4. Switzerland - 86 CPI
5. Norway - 85 CPI
6. Singapore - 84 CPI
7. Netherlands - 83 CPI
8. Canada - 82 CPI
9. Germany, Luxembourg and United Kingdom - 81 CPI
10. Australia - 79 CPI
11. Iceland - 78 CPI
12. Hong Kong and Belgium - 77 CPI
13. Austria - 75 CPI
14. United States - 74 CPI
15. Ireland - 73 CPI
16. Japan - 72 CPI
17. Uruguay - 71 CPI
18. Estonia - 70 CPI
19. France - 69 CPI
20. Bahamas, Chile and United Arab Emirates - 66 CPI

As you can see in the list of top least corrupted country and top most corrupted country as above, the most least corrupted countries are from Europe and the most corrupted countries are from Africa and Asia. However, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan are the countries from Asia which manages to take the spot in top 20 least corrupted countries in the world where as Singapore even manages to take the spot at top 10 least corrupted countries in the world.

If you want to find out which countries are going to be listed as top least and most corrupted countries in the world in 2017, then keep on following our website. As soon Transparency International's released its 2017 annual review, we will make new post on that.

If you want to share something about the corruption in the countries, then please feel free to use our comment section below.

Let's hope the world will be in peace soon and all countries get at least more than 80 Corruption Perceptions Index.

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