{"id":61420,"date":"2021-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/61420\/lebanon-ranked-among-most-corrupt-countries-in-the-world"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:19:05","slug":"lebanon-ranked-among-most-corrupt-countries-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/61420\/lebanon-ranked-among-most-corrupt-countries-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Ranked Among Most Corrupt Countries In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency International just released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2020\/index\/lbn\"target=_new\">Corruption Perceptions Index<\/a>, which ranks countries according to their level of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>  The score ranges from 0-100, 0 being very corrupt and 100 being very clean, and Lebanon just scored a 25\/100 with a rank of 149\/180 (surprise, surprise). Countries that rank worse than us include Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Burundi, and Zimbabwe. <\/p>\n<p>  This does not come as a surprise considering the Lebanese currency devaluation, harrowing economic conditions, and the Beirut blast back in August \u2014 all problems that can directly be linked to rampant corruption. Lebanese politicians and the sectarian political system continue to exploit Lebanese citizens and destroy the future of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency International just released the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":433379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-61420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[113],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lebanon Ranked Among Most Corrupt Countries In The World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Transparency International just released the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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