Kiwiblog » Transparency International http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:22:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NZ least corrupt http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/11/nz_least_corrupt.html http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/11/nz_least_corrupt.html#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:00:38 +0000 David Farrar http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/?p=38424 Transparency International has effectively ranked New Zealand as the least corrupt country on Earth. That’s obviously a good thing. But to some degree they can be self fulfilling prophecies as much of the data is based on perceptions of corruption.

So to be absolutely precise NZ was perceived as having the lowest level of corruption in the public sector of the 180 countries surveyed

The top five countries are:

  1. New Zealand 9.4
  2. Denmark 9.3
  3. Singapore 9.2
  4. Sweden 9.2
  5. Switzerland 9.2

The bottom five are:

  1. Somalia 1.1
  2. Afghanistan 1.3
  3. Myanmar 1.4
  4. Sudan 15
  5. Iraq 1.5

Countries I have been in recently:

  1. USA 7.5
  2. Turkey 4.4
  3. Kuwait 4.1
  4. Thailand 3.4
  5. Egypt 2.8

As I said above, this doesn’t mean we are corruption free. Taito Philip Field is an example of how that is not true. It is more than any corruption is not systemic.

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