Bribes galore. Five Arab states among world's 10 most corrupt countries:
"Five Arab League countries – Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Iraq and Syria – are among the bottom ten in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index issued by Transparency International.
The United Arab Emirates, in 22nd position worldwide, is narrowly ahead of Qatar as the least corrupt Arab country. Both, incidentally, are ahead of Israel which ranks 36th.
Countries are ranked in the annual survey according to a points scoring system, with 100 as the maximum score. The least corrupt countries this year – Denmark and New Zealand – both scored 91 points. Apart from the UAE and Qatar, all Arab countries scored below 50 points.
In the table below I have compared the rankings of Arab countries in the 2013 survey with 2009, to show changes over the last five years.
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"Five Arab League countries – Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Iraq and Syria – are among the bottom ten in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index issued by Transparency International.
The United Arab Emirates, in 22nd position worldwide, is narrowly ahead of Qatar as the least corrupt Arab country. Both, incidentally, are ahead of Israel which ranks 36th.
Countries are ranked in the annual survey according to a points scoring system, with 100 as the maximum score. The least corrupt countries this year – Denmark and New Zealand – both scored 91 points. Apart from the UAE and Qatar, all Arab countries scored below 50 points.
In the table below I have compared the rankings of Arab countries in the 2013 survey with 2009, to show changes over the last five years.
| 2013 | Country | 2009 |
Change
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| 26 28 57 61 63 66 69 77 91 94 94 114 119 127 127 167 168 171 172 174 175 | UAE Qatar Bahrain Oman Saudi Arabia Jordan Kuwait Tunisia Morocco Algeria Djibouti Egypt Mauritania Comoros Lebanon Yemen Syria Iraq Libya Sudan Somalia | 30 22 46 39 63 49 66 65 89 111 111 111 130 143 130 154 126 176 130 176 180 |
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-6 -11 -22 0 -17 -3 -12 -2 +17 +17 -3 +11 +16 +3 -13 -42 +5 -42 +2 +5 |
| Note: The 2009 survey covered 180 countries – three more than the 2013 survey. This is why Somalia, for example, appears to have improved its ranking while actually remaining at the bottom in both surveys. Neither survey included the Palestinian territories. | |||
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