Findings indicated that one person in four has paid a bribe to a public body in the last year, according to a survey carried out in 95 countries by Transparency International.
Sierra Le-one has the
highest number of respondents admitting to having paid a bribe - 84% - and
seven out of nine of the countries with the highest reported bribery rate are
in sub-Saharan Africa. It is flabbergasting that
Sierra Leon has overtaken West
African giants Nigeria who only reported a 44%.
Kenya leads in East Africa
with over 70% while Rwanda on the other hand had the lowest number 13% which
was the lowest in East Africa as well.
The countries with the
lowest reported bribery rate are Denmark, Finland, Japan and Australia; they
all have a bribery rate of 1%. Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer
gathered data from a total of 95 countries on bribery. For a small number of
them, including Brazil and Russia, data on particular questions has been
excluded because of concerns about validity and reliability. For the question
on corrupt institutions 105 countries were covered.
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%.
However, the survey methodology did not reveal how they dealt
with willingness of respondents to open up. And some critics have stated that a
sample of 500 out of 20,000,000 or more people is too small.
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