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This week’s topic: Government corruption
Transparency International is a non-profit that tries to track how corrupt (or not) various governments are. They just came out with their rankings for 2022, and I’m happy to say that they made their data available.
For this week’s questions, you’ll need to download the data, which is available here: /content/files/images/cpi2022_globalresultstrends.xlsx
With that in hand, I’d like you to answer the following questions:
- According to Transparency International, what five countries were least corrupt in 2022?
- According to the same data, what five countries were most corrupt in 2022?