Semester Result: Nigeria ranked 139 in corruption index 2012

Nigeria has been ranked 139 out of the 176 countries surveyed by the Transparency International in its just released Corruption Perception Index 2012.

The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 - 100, where 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means it is perceived as very clean. A country's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories included in the index. This year's index includes 176 countries and territories.

With 27 points out of 100, Nigeria took the position of 37^th most corrupt country in a survey where

Denmark, Finland New Zealand are the least corrupt countries with 90 points each.

On the other hand Somalia, Korea (North), Afghanistan, Sudan and Myanmar are the most corrupt countries at 174, 174, 174, 173, 172 positions respectively.

The highly rated African countries in the survey are Botswana at 30th position with 65 points, Cape Verde at 39th with 60 points, Mauritius at 43th with 57 points and Rwanda 50th with 53 points.

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