5. South Sudan
Corruption Percentage Index: 15
Another oil-rich country and the youngest country on this list, South Sudan, apparently has enough corruption issues to be placed up here. It is not a secret that nobody’s sources of oil can last forever, so it is frightening to even think what will happen when one by one, the oil wells around the world start to dry completely. How many new wars will begin? Back to the present, issues in South Sudan are not only lower oil revenues but also “conflict and corruption minimizing the effectiveness of foreign investments”. As you can read in the linked report, South Sudan’s elite is involved in serious money laundering.
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