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Every year, Transparency International asks people around the world about their experiences with public corruption — more than 114,000 in 107 countries for their latest “Global Corruption Barometer<\/a>.” The map below depicts the percentage of people in each of the surveyed countries who reported paying a bribe sometime in the past 12 months to any of eight public services; the scale runs from green (lowest) to red (highest).<\/p>\n\n

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Percentage of respondents in each country who paid a bribe in the past 12 months (Source: Transparency International)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n\n

The survey found that 84% of people in Sierra Leone reported paying bribes. The United States came in at a respectable 7%, but at the very bottom (or top, perhaps) were Australia, Denmark, Finland and Japan, where just 1% in each country reported paying bribes. (One reason we liked Transparency’s map is because, by clicking on each country, you can get the percentage of self-reported bribers. The same website also has other interactive corruption-related maps<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n

It’s interesting to compare the Transparency International results with Ernst & Young’s latest survey of business fraud<\/a> in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. While corruption perceptions in some countries are quite similar in the two surveys, they vary dramatically in others. For instance, 96% of Slovenian respondents in the Ernst & Young survey said that bribery and corruption were widespread in their country. But in the Transparency survey, only 6% of Slovenians said they themselves had paid a bribe in the past 12 months.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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