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Corruption perception index - what has changed in the Scandinavia?

Wednesday, 05 December 2012
Finland and Denmark are the least corrupt countries in the Scandinavia and added to the world, New Zealand joins then on the helm.
This comes from pressure group, Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions index in which Sweden came 4th.

Of the 27 EU member countries, corruption is the biggest problem in Greece. Also Italian fare badly - worse than, say, Romania.

According to Transparency International, corruption continues to be a massive problem. Two thirds of the world's countries have a very bad grade in the report.

"Governments need to integrate anti-corruption actions into all public decision-making. Priorities include better rules on lobbying and political financing, making public spending and contracting more transparent and making public bodies more accountable to people,” said Huguette Labelle, the Chair of Transparency International.
See country rank below - the leading 20 least corrupt countries in the world.
by Scancomark.com Team

Country Rank

Country Rank	Country / Territory	CPI 2012 Score	Surveys Used	Standard Error	90% Confidence interval		Scores range
					Lower	Upper	MIN	MAX
1	Denmark	90	7	2.0	87	93	83	98
1	Finland	90	7	3.0	85	95	83	100
1	New Zealand	90	7	2.2	87	94	83	98
4	Sweden	88	7	1.9	85	91	82	97
5	Singapore	87	9	2.1	83	90	79	99
6	Switzerland	86	6	2.6	81	90	73	90
7	Australia	85	8	1.1	83	86	80	89
7	Norway	85	7	1.6	82	87	78	89
9	Canada	84	7	2.2	80	87	74	89
9	Netherlands	84	7	2.0	81	88	73	89
11	Iceland	82	6	4.1	75	89	71	98
12	Luxembourg	80	6	2.8	75	85	71	89
13	Germany	79	8	2.3	75	83	73	89
14	Hong Kong	77	8	1.9	74	80	69	83
15	Barbados	76	3	6.7	65	87	66	88
16	Belgium	75	7	2.4	71	78	71	89
17	Japan	74	9	2.3	70	78	57	79
17	United Kingdom	74	8	1.3	72	77	69	81
19	United States	73	9	4.1	66	79	50	89
20	Chile	72	9	2.1	69	76	63	82
20	Uruguay	72	6	1.5	70	75	69	79

Source: Transparency International 2012