BERLIN, Sept 23: Rankings of 180 nations studied by the Transparency International for its annual Corruption Perceptions Index.

The scores relate to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by businesspeople and country analysts and ranges between zero, which is highly corrupt, and 10, which is very clean. The scores are tabulated under ranking, country name and score:

1, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand (9.3); 4, Singapore (9.2); 5, Finland, Switzerland (9.0); 7, Iceland, Netherlands (8.9); 9, Australia, Canada (8.7); 11, Luxembourg (8.3); 12, Austria, Hong Kong (8.1); 14, Germany, Norway (7.9); 16, Ireland, United Kingdom (7.7); 18, United States, Japan, Belgium (7.3); 21, Saint Lucia (7.1); 22, Barbados (7.0); 23, France, Chile, Uruguay (6.9); 26, Slovenia (6.7); 27, Estonia (6.6); 28, Spain, Qatar, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (6.5); 31, Cyprus (6.4); 32, Portugal (6.1); 33, Israel, Dominica (6.0); 35, United Arab Emirates (5.9); 36, Botswana, Puerto Rico, Malta (5.8); 39, Taiwan (5.7); 40, South Korea (5.6); 41, Mauritius, Oman (5.5); 43, Macao, Bahrain (5.4); 45, Bhutan, Czech Republic (5.2); 47, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Hungary, Jordan, Cape Verde (5.1); 52, Slovakia, Latvia (5.0); 54, South Africa (4.9); 55, Seychelles, Italy (4.8); 57, Greece (4.7); 58, Turkey, Lithuania, Poland (4.6); 61, Namibia (4.5); 62, Samoa, Croatia, Tunisia (4.4); 65, Kuwait, Cuba (4.3); 67, Ghana, Georgia, El Salvador (3.9); 70, Romania, Colombia (3.8); 72, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, Peru, Mexico, China, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Swaziland (3.60); 80, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Morocco (3.5); 85, Senegal, Panama, Serbia, Montenegro, Madagascar, Albania, India (3.4); 92, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sri Lanka, Lesotho (3.2); 96, Gabon, Mali, Jamaica, Guatemala, Benin, Kiribati (3.1); 102, Tanzania, Lebanon, Rwanda, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Djibouti, Mongolia (3.0); 109, Armenia, Belize, Argentina, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Moldova (2.9); 115, Mauritania, Maldives, Niger, Malawi, Zambia, Egypt (2.8); 121, Togo, Vietnam, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Nepal (2.7); 126, Indonesia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Uganda, Guyana, Libya, Eritrea, Mozambique (2.6); 134, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Comoros, Ukraine (2.5); 138, Paraguay, Liberia, Tonga (2.4); 141, Yemen, Cameroon, Iran, Philippines (2.3); 145, Kazakhstan, Timor-Leste (2.2); 147, Syria, Bangladesh, Russia, Kenya (2.1); 151, Laos, Equator, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Belarus (2.0); 158, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Congo Republic, Sierra Leone, Venezuela, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Gambia (1.9); 166, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan (1.8); 171, Congo-Democratic Republic, Equatorial Guinea (1.7); 173, Guinea, Chad, Sudan (1.6); 176, Afghanistan (1.5); 177, Haiti (1.4); 178, Iraq, Myanmar (1.3); 180, Somalia (1.0).—AFP