| Each one of the 102 points plotted below represents a different country. | Correlation does not prove causation, but there are many other reasons to believe this is true: corruption impedes economic growth. |
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GDP per capita based on 2000 data available at http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ |
Corruption Score is based on the TI Corruption Perceptions Index 2002, available at http://www.transparency.org/ |
For display purposes, the corruption score here is 10 minus the TI score, so that a higher score indicates higher corruption. |
| Source data is available here. |