Since the practice of corruption is a deceitful act, the Indian population is largely seen as dishonest. While there are many honorable and noble people as well in the country, greediness and dishonesty is driving the remaining. Sometimes people have to get involved in corruption due to the compulsion of getting their work done.

Another reason of this country wide corruption is that we are surrounded by countries which themselves are so poor and continuously try to destabilize our economy in one way or another. Countries like Pakistan and Nepal rank at 140 and 135 respectively in the index. Iran and Libya are also not very far with 133th and 134^th position.

Meanwhile, China which was ranked jointly with India on 72 in 2007, slipped a step above to occupy the place higher that its neighbor this year. Russia has extremely high level of corruption, even after the Putin’s era and ranks at 145 in the index. Sri Lanka is on 96th position while Maldives is ranked 90.Bhutan is the least corrupted country in the Asian region which could be due to the nascent democracy in the country. New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Finland and Sweden have retained the top five spots this year as well. Myanmar and Somalia occupy the bottom position in the index. USA has retained its position on 20 and is just below Ireland, Germany, Japan and France.

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