Liberia ranks 138 on the 180-nation corruption index established by the good-governance group Transparency International.

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The nongovernmental organization has released its Corruption Perceptions Index each year since nineteen ninety-eight.

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Azerbaijan also gets a poor rating in the corruption index compiled by Transparency International.

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Italy ranked 69th of 180 countries in Transparency International's 2011 corruption index, lower than Saudi Arabia.

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Scandinavian countries, which perennially rank among the least corrupt in the corruption index, had the fewest unpaid tickets.

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