Corruption in Denmark is amongst the lowest in the world. According to the 2022

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from

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, Denmark scored 90 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Denmark held first place among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country (or, in other years, countries) ranked first are perceived to have the most honest public sector. For comparison, the worst score was 12 (ranked 180) and the average was 43. The

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reported in 2014 that Denmark has consistently been in the top-4 since the publication of the first Corruption Perceptions Index report in 1995. Moreover, Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer 2013 shows that the public does not consider corruption a major problem in

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, and bribes paid to access public benefits and services are virtually non-existent. The business environment regarding the ethical behaviour of companies' interaction with public officials, politicians and other enterprises, as well as the financial auditing and reporting standards among companies, are very strong, according to the

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2013–2014. The

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has pointed out in 2013, though, that it had "serious concerns about the lack of enforcement" of bribery paid by Danish companies abroad.

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Denmark Corruption Profile
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