Transparency International published its annual Corruption Perception Index today. As you may know the Corruption Perception Index is based on a range of surveys and reflects perceptions rather than actual instances of corruption. There’s also a map of the corruption data (watch out though, for some reason it resizes your browser.)
Countries are scored from 1 to 10 (10 being the least corrupt).
Perhaps unsurprisingly, those states experiencing ongoing conflict remain at the bottom of the index. They are – Somalia, with a score of 1.1, Afghanistan at 1.3, Myanmar at 1.4 and Sudan tied with Iraq at 1.5.
However, as Transparency International points out:
“Industrialised countries cannot be complacent though: the supply of bribery and the facilitation of corruption often involve businesses based in their countries. Financial secrecy jurisdictions, linked to many countries that top the CPI, severely undermine efforts to tackle corruption and recover stolen assets.”
So that Italy only scores 4.3, and the U.K. 7.7 compared to states like Sweden which scores 9.2 and New Zealand with 9.4 at the top the Index.
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Thanks for putting this up … I’d be interested to see where the countries that are in conflict came on the index before we invaded them?
Great idea.
If I get a spare moment I might run their data through a visualisation, see what it turns up.
O.K. now I’ve had a look on the TI site, and there doesn’t seem to be a data source, machine readable or otherwise, that charts changes over time. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to get involved in any serious data bashing so I won’t be able to make any visualisations. I am, however, going to e-mail them, as it’s crazy that they don’t have this data available.
Also Tim Berners Lee on why organisations need to release machine readable data (and that doesn’t mean PDFs).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6XIICm_qo
interesting … would have thought this would be the first line of inquiry for journalists looking at the effects of the war. Perhaps Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t properly indexed because of restrictions … Anyway all we can hope is these countries are on the ‘up’, whatever that means!