A report of Berlin-based Transparency International showed 30% respondents said corruption in Ethiopia increased over the last two years.
This is one of the findings listed in the group’s Global Corruption Barometer 2013, which Transparency International calls the biggest survey tracking worldwide public opinion on corruption. The report was released on Tuesday, July 9.
In Ethiopia, Transparency International surveyed 1,000 respondents nationwide.
Many of the respondents reported paying bribes in the past year to any one of these 8 services: police, judiciary, registry, land, medical, education, tax, and utilities.
In Ethiopia, 24% of people thought that political parties were affected by corruption, 23% of people in Ethiopia thought that parliament / legislature was affected by corruption, 29% of people in Ethiopia thought that military was affected by corruption, 18% of people in Ethiopia thought that NGOs were affected by corruption, 23% of people in Ethiopia thought that media was affected by corruption, 27% of people in Ethiopia thought that religious bodies were affected by corruption, 29% of people in Ethiopia thought that business was affected by corruption, 36% of people in Ethiopia thought that education systems were affected by corruption, 35% of people in Ethiopia thought that judiciary was affected by corruption, 41% of people in Ethiopia thought that medical and health services were affected by corruption, 42% of people in Ethiopia thought that police were affected by corruption, and 35% of people in Ethiopia thought that public officials and civil servants were affected by corruption.
Since 2003, the Global Corruption Barometer has been surveying the experiences of everyday people confronting corruption around the world.
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