Ranking the Caribbean By Perceived Levels of Corruption

Above: Barbados (CJ Photo)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

On Tuesday, Corruption watchdog Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index report, a ranking of the perceived level of public sector corruption in each of the world’s countries.

Countries are ranked on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 means a country is perceived as highly corrupty, and 100 means it is perceived as very clean.

So where do Caribbean countries rank? And which countries have the lowest perceptions of corruption?

In the Caribbean, Barbados has the lowest level of perceived corruption, and the 15th-lowest level in the world, just after the United Kingdom.

Next is the Bahamas, which is ranked 22nd in the world, followed by St Lucia at 22 and St Vincent and the Grenadines and Puerto Rico each at 33.

Haiti was the lowest-ranked Caribbean country on the list at 163rd in the world, just ahead of Yemen.

Denmark was ranked as the cleanest country in the world.

For the full list of Caribbean countries, see below, with global ranks. (Note: several countries were not included in the report, including Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada and St Kitts and Nevis.)

Barbados 15
Bahamas 22
St Lucia 22
Puerto Rico 33
St Vincent and the Grenadines 33
Dominica 41
Cuba 63
Jamaica 83
Trinidad 83
Suriname 94
Dominican Republic 123
Guyana 136
Haiti 163