6. Angola
Corruption Percentage Index: 15
If you’ve ever wondered which is the worst place in the world to be a child, then you’ve most probably come across Angola. As Nicholas Kristof explains it in its documentary, Angola’s corruption issues are so immense that they are among the main reasons for so many children dying there. As he explains while visiting one big clean hospital, where children are dying from malnutrition, which no one knows how to diagnose: “It’s easier for officials to steal money by commissioning a big expensive hospital; training staff, on the other hand, doesn’t offer that kind of payday”. Those officials “spend $50 million a year on luxury cars alone; judges here get Jaguars to drive, as kids perish at the highest rate in the world”.
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