Haiti ranked as the 10th most corrupt country in Transparency International's most recent corruption perception index. Globally, amid economic troubles, corruption seems to be one of the few things that has grown. Transparency International's latest corruption index shows that 75 of 180 countries surveyed scored below 3 on a 10-point scale of governmental honesty, an increase from 72 countries in 2008.
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There were a lot of repeat offenders, including perennially corrupt nations like Somalia, Iran and Venezuela. Russia slipped a notch to rank 147th with a corruption index score of 2.2. The U.S. can't afford to be smug, as it also fell one place to 19th with a score of 7.3. (Blame Congress: Surveys show "the legislature is perceived as the institution most affected by corruption" in the U.S., Transparency International said.)
Chronic goodie-two-shoes New Zealand came in first with a score of 9.4, with Denmark in second with a score of 9.3, unchanged from 2008.
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