NEW ZEALAND AND DENMARK BEST IN LATEST CORRUPTION SURVEY
February 1st, 2018
NEW Zealand and Denmark have topped the table as the countries seen as the least corrupt worldwide in the latest Transparency International (TI) ranking, scoring 89 and 88 respectively. Coming bottom of the 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which rates countries from 0 (most corrupt) to 100 (the cleanest), are Syria, South Sudan and Somalia scoring only 14, 12 and 9 respectively. Published February 21, the index shows - alarmingly -that over two thirds of countries score less than 50, with the average just 43. TI also notes all journalists killed since ...
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