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Monday, December 5, 2011

United States Should Be Ranked Higher

Ranked: The United States is ranked behind 23 countries with New Zealand ranked as the least corrupt, according to the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index


The United States is ranked behind 23 countries in its scale of corruption, according to an international report released this week.

New Zealand comes in at number one as the least corrupt country, just before Denmark and Finland sharing the number two spot. 

The report released by German watchdog organization Transparency International, ranked the 182 countries and territories according to their levels of perceived public sector corruption.

Surrounding the United States' place at 24, Chile placed 22 and Uruguay at 25, being its only two closely competing South American countries.

The bottom ranked nations, ahead of Somalia and North Korea who tied at number 182, were Myanmar, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Sudan, Iraq, Haiti and Venezuela. . . .

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