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Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland, (all scoring above 80 over the last four years), are perceived as the least corrupt nations in the world — ranking consistently high among international financial transparency — while the most apparently corrupt is Somalia (scoring 11), along with Syria, South Sudan ...
Common indicators include a state whose central government is so weak or ineffective that it has little practical control over much of its territory; non-provision of public services; widespread corruption and criminality; refugees and involuntary movement of populations; and sharp economic decline. [1]
The annual index draws on 13 surveys, public records and expert assessments to rank 180 countries using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is “very clean.”
According to the 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International, Denmark scored 90 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Denmark held first place among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country or countries ranked first are perceived to have the most honest public sector. [1]
Denmark came in first place despite a series of recent scandals in the country involving money laundering and tax evasion that shocked the monarch-led country. The world's 6 least corrupt ...
Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are the least corrupt countries in the ranking. The United States comes in as the 24th most honest in the index.
The Global Corruption Barometer published by Transparency International is the largest survey in the world tracking public opinion on corruption. [1] It surveys 114,000 people in 107 countries on their view of corruption.
In the U.S. News survey, respondents answered how closely they related each of the 80 countries to the term 'corrupt.'