Anti-corruption nonprofit
Transparency International, TI, has
released its 2013 Global Corruption
Barometer, which surveyed residents in 107 countries, ranking Nigeria, Zambia, Paraguay, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Venezula and Russia as
the largest countries on the globe
with active corruption indices with
Liberia and Mongolia leading the
table.
According to the report, the world’s
corrupt nations differ in many ways
Four are located in Africa, three in
Latin America and two in Asia. These nations also vary considerably in size and population.
Mongolia has just 3.2 million residents, while Mexico, Nigeria and Russia are three of the largest countries on the globe, each with more than 100 million people.
In Nigeria, 84% of those surveyed by Transparency International claimed corruption had increased in the past two years, a higher percentage than almost any other country in the world.
Disturbingly, 75% of those surveyed
also said the government was
ineffective at fighting corruption
worse than in all but 10 countries.
TI says Nigeria is heavily dependent on the oil industry, yet the government refuses to act on
accusations that the oil companies
are under-reporting the value of the resources they extract and the tax they owe by billions of dollars.
The report adds that “certain
transparency groups also blamed
politicians for encouraging
corruption. In 2012, Nigeria had just the 37th largest GDP in the world, despite having the world’s seventh largest population.
“Globally, at least 60% of
respondents claimed political parties and police were corrupt.
Additionally, more than 50% of
people stated their legislature, their public officials and their judiciary were corrupt.In the world’s most corrupt nations, those institutions were, naturally, even worse.
In Nigeria, 94% of people claimed their political parties were corrupt the most in the world. Similarly, 96% of Liberians reported their legislaturewas corrupt, also the most in the world. In eight of the nine most corrupt nations, more than 80% of residents considered the police to be corrupt.”
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