Bad news for visa liberalisation, Kosovo among the world's 10 most corrupt nations

According to the newspaper “Monitor” of Tirana, which has processed the Gallup poll data under the Happiness Index, Albania is one of the countries where the perception of corruption by its citizens is among the highest in the world, according to the sub-index of corruption, measured as part of the recently released Happiness Index by the United Nations.

One of the indicators that served to measure the happiness index was the perceived level of corruption. The international polling company Gallup surveyed about 1,000 individuals in about 150 countries in the world. In the corruption index, perception was measured through two questions: “is corruption widespread in government or not?” and “Is corruption widespread in businesses?” The lower the index, the higher the perception of corruption.

“Monitor” has processed data released online by the World Happiness Report, published two days ago, resulting in Albania's perception of corruption received a score of 0.032, ranking 19th among the states whose citizens think they are “zhtura” in corruption.

States with the highest perception of corruption in the world are Lihuania, Bulgaria, Ukraine. Of the countries in the region, Kosovo is worse than we are, while even in the neighbouring state, Italy, citizens' perception of corruption is very high.

The countries respective citizens think there is a low level of corruption are Singapore, Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland. These are the resulting states and the first in the order index of happiness.

While Albania, in the 2018 report, resulted in the most unhappy in Europe and among the 10 countries in the world, which had marked the worst deterioration in the last three years. http://wme.monitor.al/raporti-happiness-show-Progress-Albanian-e-un-e-e-europe-nder-the-the-high-in-world integration/

The indicators on which the index is based take per capita income, expectations for a healthy life, support from friends and relatives, charity data, freedom to make choices in life and perceived levels of corruption, indicators for which Albanians seem to result in the most unhappy in the region and Europe.

In addition to corruption, Albania ranks badly in the social support index (19th from the end), where individuals have been asked: “If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends on where you can rely to help you when you need it?”

Our country is best represented in the expectations of a healthy life at birth (cauted by the World Health Organization's data) and the freedom to make choices in life, with the question “Are you satisfied or unhappy with the freedom to choose what you want to do in life?”

In the per capita income index, measured according to purchasing power, where the report has processed World Bank data, Albania is 83rd in the world, leaving only Bosnia (84) and Kosovo (91). But, although the poorest and with high perception of corruption, in the happiness index Kosovo was the first in the region, instead of 66 (Albania was in place of 112, Bosnia is in 93, Macedonia instead of 89, Montenegro instead of 81, Serbia instead of 78). /Monitor

Corruption perception (the lower the score, the higher the level)

1 Freedom 0.006

2 Bulgaria 0.009

3 Ukraine 0.011

4 Slovenakia 0.014

5 Portual 0.017

6 Indonesia 0.018

7 Trinidad & Tobacco 0.059

8 Hungarian 0.02

9 Kosovo 0.023

10 Russia 0.025

11 Armenia 0.08

12 It's 0.08.

13 Ghana 0.0029

14 Thai 0.09

15 Liberia 0.030

16 Jamaica 0.031

17 Mongolia 0.02

18 Nigeria 0.032

19 Albania 0.032

20 Lebanon 0.034

21 Czech Republic 0.034

22 Peru 0.034

23 Kyrgyzstan 0.035

24 Cyprus 0.035

25 Afghanistan 0.036

26 Turkmenistan 0.037

27 African Reublic 0.038

28 Croatia 0.039

29 Columbia 0.039

30 Serbia 0.043

31 Cameroon 0.043

32 Greece 0.044

33 Madagascar 0.049

34 Mauritius 0.00

35 Sri Lanka 0.00

36 Slovenia 0.0051

37 South Korea 0.0051

38 Gabon 0.0052

39 Venezuela 0.0052

40 Congo (Kinshasa) 0.0052

41 Macedonian 0.0052

42 Sierra Leone 0.0053

43 Argentine 0.0054

44 Bolivia 0.0054

45 Kenya 0.05

46 South Africa 0.0056

47 Mountain 0.056

48 Malaysia 0.059

49 Chad 0.00

50 Uganda 0.01

51 Chile 0.01

52 Angola 0.01

53 Tunisia 0.063

54 Panama 0.063

55 Polish 0.064

56 Yemen 0.0064

57 Namibia 0.064

58 Cambodia 0.065

59 Latifa 0. 066

60 Benin 0.067

61 Guatemala 0.11

62 Honduras 0.074

63 Spain 0.074

64 Paraguay 0.074

65 Morocco 0.074

66 Burundi 0.076

67 Palestinian Territorys 0.076

68 Congo (Brazzaville) 0.07

69 Taiwaan Province of China 0.078

70 Nepal 0.08

71 Vietnam 0.079

72 Malai 0.080

73 Montenegro 0.11

74 Israel 0.082

75 Sudan 0.082

76 Zambia 0.082

77 Senegal 0.262

78 El Salvador 0.082

79 Brazil 0.18

80 Belize 0.089

81 Botsiana 0.092

82 India 0.093

83 Mauritania 0.093

84 Guinea 0.04

85 Iraq 0.05

86 Mexico 0095

87 Tanzania 0.097

88 Niger 0.09

89 Zimbabe 0099

90 Costa Rica 0.11

91 Togo 0.11

92 Ivory Coast 0.103

93 China 0.103

94 Haiti 0.104

95 Phillips 0.105

96 South Sudan 0.106

97 Dominican Republic 0.106

98 Kuwait 0.106

99 Egypt 0.107

100 Turkish 0.109

101 Lesotho 0.112

102 Pakistan 0.113

103 Ecuador 0.120

104 Kazakh 0.11

105 Bahrain 0.123

106 Saudi Arabia 0.1127

107 Burkina Faso 0.1128

108 Nicaragua 0.1128

109 Iran 0.129

110 United States 0.1133

111 Jordan 0.134

112 Algeria 0.135

113 Thai 0.1136

114 Iceland 0.138

115 Malta 0.142

116 Bangladesh 0.144

117 Syria 0.144

118 Ethiopia 0.146

119 Libya 0.1148

120 Japan 0.150

121 North Cyprus 0.114

122 Bellarus 0.114

123 Uruguay 0.1155

124 Mozart 0.18

125 Mutar 0.11

126 Bhutan 0.1171

127 Laos 0.1174

128 Estonia 0.1174

129 France 0.176

130 Myanmar 0.1178

131 United Arab Emirates 0.186

132 Georgia 0.215

133 Austria 0.224

134 Belgium 0.240

135 United Kingdom 0.22

136 Germany 0.280

137 Canada 0.291

138 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.0291

139 Netherlands 0.0295

140 Australia 0.302

141 Ireland 0.306

142 Luxembourg 0.321

143 Noray 0.340

144 Scytzerland 0.357

145 Seeden 0.383

146 New Zealand 0.389

147 Finland 0.393

148 Denmark 0.408

149 Singapore 0.457

(Empty: Gallup poll, under the Happiness Index; data processed by Monitor