Measuring Corruption.

Every year, Transparency International -the global coalition against corruption-, publish a very useful study about the level of corruption interesting different countries. The score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country, and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt).

1. Denmark - Finland - New Zealand 9.4
2. Singapore - Sweden 9.3
3. Iceland 9.2
4. Netherlands - Switzerland - 9.0
5. Canada - Norway 8.7
6. Luxembourg - United Kingdom 8.4
7. Hong Kong 8.3
8. Austria 8.1
9. Germany 7.8
10. Ireland - Japan 7.5
11. France 7.3
12. USA 7.2
13. Belgium 7.1
14. Chile 7.0
15. Barbados 6.9
16. Saint Lucia 6.8
17. Spain 6.7
18. Slovenia 6.6
19. Estonia - Portugal 6.5
    
20. Israel - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6.1
    
21. Qatar 6.0
22. Malta 5.8
23. Macao - Taiwan - United Arab Emirates 5.7
24. Dominica 5.6
25. Botswana 5.4
26. Cyprus 5.3
27. Czech Republic - Italy 5.2
28. Malaysia - South Africa - South Korea 5.1
29. Bahrain - Bhutan - Costa Rica 5.0
30. Cape Verde - Slovakia 4.9
31. Latvia - Lithuania 4.8
32. Jordan - Mauritius - Oman 4.7
33. Greece 4.6
34. Namibia - Samoa - Seychelles 4.5
35. Kuwait 4.3
36. Cuba - Poland - Tunisia 4.2
37. Bulgaria - Croatia - Turkey 4.1
38. El Salvador 4.0
39. Colombia 3.8
40. Ghana - Romania 3.7
41. Senegal 3.6
42. Brazil - China - India - Mexico - Morocco - Peru - Suriname 3.5
43. Georgia - Grenada - Saudi Arabia - Serbia - Trinidad and Tobago 3.4
44. Bosnia and Herzegovina - Gabon - Jamaica - Kiribati - Lesotho - FYR Macedonia - Maldives - Montenegro - Swaziland - Thailand 3.3
45. Madagascar - Panama - Sri Lanka - Tanzania 3.2
46. Vanuatu 3.1
    
47. Algeria - Armenia - Belize - Dominican Republic - Lebanon - Mongolia 3.0
48. Albania - Argentina - Bolivia - Burkina Faso - Djibouti - Egypt 2.9
49. Eritrea - Guatemala - Moldova - Mozambique - Rwanda - Solomon Islands - Uganda 2.8
50. Benin - Malawi - Mali - Sao Tome and Principe - Ukraine 2.7
51. Comoros - Guyana - Mauritania - Nicaragua - Niger - Timor-Leste - Viet Nam
    
52. Zambia - Burundi - Honduras - Iran - Libya - Nepal - Philippines - Yemen 2.5
53. Cameroon - Ethiopia - Pakistan - Paraguay - Syria 2.4
54. Gambia - Indonesia - Russia - Togo 2.3
55. Angola - Guinea-Bissau - Nigeria - 2.2
56. Azerbaijan - Belarus - Congo Republic - Cote d'Ivoire - Equador - Kazakhstan - Kenya - Kirgyzstan - Liberia - Sierra Leone - Tajikistan - Zimbabwe 2.1
57. Bangladesh - Cambodia - Central Africa Republic - Papua New Guinea - Turkmenistan - Venezuela 2.0
58. Congo democratic Republic - Equatorial Guinea - Guinea - Laos 1.9
59. Afghanistan - Chad - Sudan 1.8
60. Tonga - Uzbekistan 1.7
61. Haiti 1.6
62. Iraq 1.5
63. Myanmar - Somalia 1.4

- Transparency.org -