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By Matt Rosenberg, About.com Guide to Geography since 1997

Chad, Bangladesh Most Corrupt, Iceland Least

Wednesday October 26, 2005
This year's ranking of the level of corruption in most of the countries of the world ranks Chad, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Myanmar and Haiti as the most corrupt countries of the world while Iceland, Finland, and New Zealand are the least corrupt. The rankings, produced by the organization Transparency International, showed that more than two-thirds of the 159 nations surveyed showed serious levels of corruption. I really found this quote in a press release by Transparency International's CEO David Nussbaum particularly poignant, "Corruption isn’t a natural disaster: it is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves." Here's the report.

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