Corruption Index

I found an article at
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world...906_index.html about a company named Transperancy International who ranked 102 countries on how corrupted they were. 1 being least corrupted and 102 being the most i got the list from the link above.
1. Finland
2. Denmark
New Zealand
4. Iceland
5. Singapore
Sweden
7. Canada
Luxembourg
Netherlands
10. United Kingdom
11. Australia
12. Norway
Switzerland
14. Hong Kong
15. Austria
16. USA
17. Chile
18. Germany
Israel
20. Belgium
Japan
Spain
23. Ireland
24. Botswana
25. France
Portugal
27. Slovenia
28. Namibia
29. Estonia
Taiwan
31. Italy
32. Uruguay
33. Hungary
Malaysia
Trinidad & Tobago
36. Belarus
Lithuania
South Africa
Tunisia
40. Costa Rica
Jordan
Mauritius
South Korea
44. Greece
45. Brazil
Bulgaria
Jamaica
Peru
Poland
50. Ghana
51. Croatia
52. Czech Republic
Latvia
Morocco
Slovak Republic
Sri Lanka
57. Colombia
Mexico
59. China
Dominican Republic
Ethiopia
62. Egypt
El Salvador
64. Thailand
Turkey
66. Senegal
67. Panama
68. Malawi
Uzbekistan
70. Argentina
71. Cote d'Ivoire
Honduras
India
Russia
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
77. Pakistan
Philippines
Romania
Zambia
81. Albania
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Venezuela
85. Georgia
Ukraine
Vietnam
88. Kazakhstan
89. Bolivia
Cameroon
Ecuador
Haiti
93. Moldova
Uganda
95. Azerbijan
96. Indonesia
Kenya
98. Angola
Madagascar
Paraguay
101. Nigeria
102. Bangladesh

im surprised Hong Kong got a lower number than the US, and that Germany and Belgium got higher numbers. But it looks about right to me.

i would have thought japan with a lower numer than it got as well

When Hong Kong was still under British jurisdiction until 1997, cops used to make as MUCH as doctors do....I dont know if thats still the case but that might be why...

Weird, I was thinking about HK too... Maybe around 2050 we'll get a bit more corruption in ye-olde-HK, because that's a little after the time (2047) when the mainland gets to change things around wholesale :P I plan to go back there next summer just to reminisce.

Since I have followed this country closely and have visited it there and seen the corruption first-hand, I can officially say Nigeria (which is in Africa) IS NOT 101. It is more like #1. They are so incredibly corrupted you basically have to bribe the taxi-drivers to take you places, its sick. Another example is customs. If you have something taxable or semi-illegal, all you have to do is bribe the customs officials and 99% of them will let it thru! Also, for an excellent example of the managment corruption...

There is an unfinished oil refinery there. There was way more than enough money to build it when they started, but now it lies unfinished simply because high ranking officials took all the money. The sad thing is, this is an every day occurence.

Uraloony: The higher the number in that list the more corruption. That makes Finland the least corrupted country in the world and Nigeria, almost as you said, the second most corrupted.
/me is proud of his nation :)

FInland was the last corrupted country for the second year in a row