The World Bank estimates that more than $1 trillion US Dollars (USD) is paid each year in bribes — that's about equal to the gross domestic product of India. The countries where corruption is most common are Somalia, Myanmar, Iraq, Haiti and Afghanistan.
More facts about corruption:
The countries in which large companies are most likely to offer bribes to senior officials in other countries are Russia, China, Taiwan and Australia.
Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden and Singapore are ranked as the least corrupted countries in the world.
At least one in four people in the world pay some form of a bribe every year.
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