Global Corruption Barometer

The Global Corruption Barometer published by Transparency International is the largest survey in the world tracking public opinion on corruption. It surveys 114,000 people in 107 countries on their view of corruption.

Have you paid a bribe in 2013?

People in 95 countries have been surveyed whether they have paid a bribe to a public body during the last year; for a small number of countries, including Brazil and Russia, data on particular questions has been excluded because of concerns about validity and reliability. The margin of error for each country is 3%. The typical sample size is 1,000 people. Four countries - Cyprus, Luxembourg, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands - have a sample size of 500 people and a margin of error of 4%.

Unlike the other similar Corruption Perception Index published by Transparency International, this is a survey directly asking the population instead of using "perceived expert opinions", which is liable to substantial bias and has been under criticism as such. In a 2013 article in Foreign Policy, Alex Cobham argued that the CPI embeds a powerful and misleading elite bias in popular perceptions of corruption, potentially contributing to a vicious cycle and at the same time incentivizing inappropriate policy responses. Cobham resumes: "the index corrupts perceptions to the extent that it's hard to see a justification for its continuing publication."

Rank	Country/Territory	% of people who paid bribes
1=	Australia	1
1=	Denmark	1
1=	Finland	1
1=	Japan	1
5	Spain	2
6=	Canada	3
6=	South Korea	3
6=	Malaysia	3
6=	Maldives	3
6=	New Zealand	3
6=	Norway	3
6=	Portugal	3
6=	Uruguay	3
14=	Belgium	4
14=	Croatia	4
14=	Georgia	4
17=	Italy	5
17=	United Kingdom	5
19=	Estonia	6
19=	Slovenia	6
21=	Switzerland	7
21=	United States	7
23	Bulgaria	8
24	Chile	10
25=	El Salvador	12
25=	Hungary	12
25=	Israel	12
25=	Jamaica	12
25=	Palestine	12
25=	Philippines	12
31=	Argentina	13
31=	Rwanda	13
31=	Vanuatu	13
34	Czech Republic	15
35	Kosovo	16
36=	Macedonia	17
36=	Romania	17
36=	Sudan	17
39=	Armenia	18
39=	Thailand	18
39=	Tunisia	18
42=	Cyprus	19
42=	Latvia	19
42=	Sri Lanka	19
45	Peru	20
46=	Slovakia	21
46=	Turkey	21
48=	Colombia	22
48=	Greece	22
50	Paraguay	25
51=	Lithuania	26
51=	Serbia	26
53=	Papua New Guinea	27
53=	Venezuela	27
55=	Bosnia and Herzegovina	28
55=	Madagascar	28
57=	Iraq	29
57=	Moldova	29
59	Vietnam	30
60	Nepal	31
61	Mexico	33
62=	Kazakhstan	34
62=	Pakistan	34
62=	Solomon Islands	34
65=	Bolivia	36
65=	Egypt	36
65=	Indonesia	36
65=	Taiwan	36
69=	Jordan	37
69=	Ukraine	37
71=	Bangladesh	39
71=	South Sudan	39
73	Algeria	41
74=	Ethiopia	44
74=	Nigeria	44
76=	Kyrgyzstan	45
76=	Mongolia	45
78=	Afghanistan	46
78=	Democratic Republic of the Congo	46
80	South Africa	47
81	Morocco	49
82=	Ghana	54
82=	India	54
84	Tanzania	56
85=	Cambodia	57
85=	Senegal	57
87	Uganda	61
88=	Cameroon	62
88=	Libya	62
88=	Mozambique	62
88=	Zimbabwe	62
92	Kenya	70
93	Yemen	74
94	Liberia	75
95	Sierra Leone	84

See also

• Transparency International
• Corruption Perceptions Index
• OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
• United Nations Convention against Corruption

External links

Official website