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Finland, Iceland, and New Zealand share the honour of being deemed the least corrupt countries in the world.
According to the annual survey by Transparency International, the three nations are tied for first place in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPA).
Haiti is considered to be the most corrupt country.
The index defines corruption as “the abuse of public office for private gain” and gauges the level to which corruption is perceived to exist among a nation’s officials and politicians.
The 2006 Transparency International survey examined 163 countries in total. Some 20 countries are not covered in the poll because of the unavailability of dependable data for them. The scores range from ten, entirely incorrupt, to zero, very corrupt. Transparency International deems a score of 5.0 as the borderline number that separates countries that have a considerable corruption problem from those that do not.
Algeria, Czech Republic, India, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Mauritius, Paraguay, Slovenia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uruguay have improved their ratings since the previous year’s survey.
Among of the countries that have considerably worse scores since 2005 are Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Jordan, Laos, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, and the United States.
Our Client businesses – part of the deVere & Partners Group – have operations in many of the countries cited as the least corrupt, including Singapore, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Germany, Japan, and Belgium.
To find out more about living and working in these countries, click on the relevant link above. Or, to view all of the countries in which the Group is recruiting, go to the Countries Available page on this site.