{"id":32660,"date":"2016-01-29T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2016-01-29T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:44:07","slug":"32660-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/32660-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Who in Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denmark may not have a lot in common with North Korea and Somalia but all three nations placed first in their respective categories on the 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index released Wednesday by Transparency International, a Berlin-based organization that tracks perceived\u00a0levels of public sector fraud and dishonesty worldwide.<\/p>\n

For the second year running Denmark, the index showed, is the country with especially\u00a0“high levels of press freedom; access to budget information so the public knows where money comes from and how it is spent; high levels of integrity among people in power; and judiciaries that don\u2019t differentiate between rich and poor, and that are truly independent from other parts of government.”<\/p>\n

North Korea and Somalia, were the joint-worst performers. The United States came 16th out of 167 nations, its best ever showing since the survey began in 1995.<\/p>\n

Not a single country in the world is corruption-free, according to the survey, and some 68% of nations\u00a0have what Transparency International calls\u00a0a “serious problem with corruption,” meaning the high-level abuse of power that benefits the few at the expense of the many is especially pronounced in more than two-thirds of countries worldwide.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 nations perceived to be the least corrupt:<\/p>\n