Most Corrupt Asian Countries

The Top Ten
1 Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east,... read more

It's still pretty corrupt and poor. It's a "developing country" but many Filipinos leave looking for opportunity somewhere else..

Corruption in politics has been the top major problem as to why the philippines economy and problems (poor people, no jobs, health, etc) seems to slowly or never be solutioned. The politics in the philippines are run by corrupt family dynasty that has forever been running the country. Besides the corrupt politicians the people also has no self discipline whatsoever thus adding to the fuel of corruption in the country. I just really hope since of The Presidents election of Pres. Aquino who gradually open and dig all of the corruption of the country to the citizens eyes that all of the people will realize and take action against such heinous crime.

Politically, we are corrupt. Politicians tax us for everything. But our people are actually nice. The problem is our economics and our religious system. We would only pray in a national crisis. While I stand with the power of prayer, we must take more action in a crisis. We are very nice people. South Korea, North Korea, China, and Japan, however, are inhumane. You may call me inhumane, but they throw our infants high into the air and stab them with bayonets for leisure. What is more inhumane; my complaint or their inhumane way to have fun.
And finally, don't joke around about "Its more fun in The Phillipines". A lot of our culture is more memorial than those other countries. If you went here, you would say the US is boring compared to the PH.
Thanks for reading, if you did read.

2 North Korea The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, is a country in Eastern Asia. Its capital is Pyongyang. It is currently ruled by the Juche leader Kim Jong-Un, after inheriting the title from his father, Kim Jong-Il, who in turn inherited it from his father, Kim Il-Sung.

North Korea's population as of February 18th, 2017 is 25,360,273.

North Korea is the third most... read more

As you can see, north Korea is not number one on the list and the Philippines is the number one on the list its because, it deffer on the perspective on the population of corrupt people on its country. Most of the corrupt people of north korea are from the government, while in Philippines, the corrupt there are the government, the people, and even the religious sectors are, if not all, are most of them corrupt. But the corruptness in the is lesser than the north korea due to the power comes from the government only. The people of north korea has no voice while the Philippines is a democratic country. That is why, the people there have voice. It means they have freedom to do or to say what they want.

This should be #1.

If Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duerte, Adolf Hitler & Leopold Slikk can swear across North Korea, Why did North Korea have a lot of swearing and violent shows?

This country was awful!
I don't expect "cruel & crude" at a Nazi joint.
They were piles and piles of guard dogs & mutant rats.

This is just a horrific puberty.

Go to South Korea instead, It's much better.

3 Malaysia Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country occupying the Malaysian Peninsula and part of the island of Borneo. It's known for its beaches, rain forests and mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and European influences. The sprawling capital, Kuala Lumpur, is home to colonial buildings, busy shopping districts such as Bukit Bintang and skyscrapers including the iconic, 451m-tall Petronas Twin Towers.

As a youngster I can see Malaysia is a country that still have hope in the future. Politic problems happening in Malaysia now are because of the 1960s people who are still very old minded, they do not want to retire and rise a lot problems. Educated malay and chinese and indians are likely to get along very well, they do not easily get offended and tired of the politic issue arise by the 60s people. Just wait them retire, we will have a better future. However, as a chinese, I hate those chinese who only speak mandarin all the time, and not trying to approach to other races by speaking english and malay. All races need to be open minded, don't always speak your own language. Grow up and be mature, If you want Malaysia to have a better future, get along with other races, start with the languages and approaching to others, stop speaking your own language only and make the other races think you are selfish and narrow-minded. 60s people with old minded need to retire and go to rest. I hate my parents keep being racist, they are tired of the politic issues, too. Having the ability to speak multiple language are our unique and specials!

4 China China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of more than 1.4 billion. China spans five geographical time zones and borders 14 countries, the second most of any country in the world after Russia. Covering an area of approximately 9.6 million square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the world's third or fourth... read more

As a Chinese who have been 3 generations living outside China, I will never forgive the communist government for destroying the Chinese reputation moral value. China was once prosperous nation with high living standards, healthy social culture, and capable of inventing things that people use around the world. Those days are gone and any Chinese in People's Republic of China are suffering moral decline due to censorship and the other stuffs the governments did. Many Chinese who are living in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, Thailand, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines hate it when people think they came from the People's Republic of China, simply because they don't feel like they're the Chinese from mainland China.

I hate how many China bashers there are in the comments section, like bruh, not all Chinese are like that.
But the sad thing, and even I'm a Chinese, is that the government is not corrupt (Surprise!) But it's straight up terrifying. Even though strict is a way to go govern a country and make it rise to become great, it can be pretty scary. If the Chinese government wants something, they get it. Mostly it's good things, like how they forced doctors in place during the recent coronavirus outbreak, but then sometimes it does get out of hand. An example of this is the Ughyur Muslims and the concentration camps in xinjiang

5 Pakistan Pakistan was established in 1947 and is located in South Asia. Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan. Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar are other major cities of Pakistan. Urdu and English are official languages of Pakistan. World's second highest peak (K-2) and ninth highest peak (Nanga Parbat) are located in Pakistan.

Pakistan is a strong nation and it's has very low corruption ratio plus government has started a corruption awareness policy. Almost all government and private services work good and employers are hard workers they know their duties and work honestly. In all difficulties we have seek how to stay and work together to become more stronger and stronger.

Being as a one nation we are working hard to remove the label of a terrorist country. We have sacrificed a lot and now it's our time to show the world that Pakistan is one of the best country in every field. I'd talk about corruption we can at least say that in our country Corruption is much lower than neighbourhood India.

Pakistan has lost every war against India but we are strong enough to defeat USA, India is another factor...We got Nukes which cannot kill even a mosquito but we are strong.

6 India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. Its capital is New Delhi. Some other major cities are Mumbai, Chennai, and Ahemdabad. The most spoken languages are Hindi and English, but there are 22 official Indian languages... read more

India is corrupt country not by choice but by chance. Especially politicians are most corrupt people here. They are the staters of corruption which forces other people to enter the corrupt circle in which common man is gets pressed. Govt Officers are helpless and bound to take bribe as they cannot lose money from theie pockets for the demands of politicians. Hope politicians get reformed and the whole system will change in india.

The country of street is very well known for its corrupt people. Once an incident happened with me in this country of street where I was driving a vehicle and suddenly a policeman stopped me even though I was wearing helmet. Later he charged me 300 bucks and then again he charged 300. Truly I am ashamed to call myself among one of the Street.

These lost voters don't know anything about India. Maybe North Korea is more corrupt, but that's all. India is a country where the people are great but the government isn't. It should be number 2 at least. One day, India will be great, but at the moment, corruption is rampant in the country. Please vote to number 2 to raise awareness.

7 Myanmar Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 ethnic groups, bordering India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. Yangon (formerly Rangoon), the country's largest city, is home to bustling markets, numerous parks and lakes, and the towering, gilded Shwedagon Pagoda, which contains Buddhist relics and dates to the 6th century.

Ever since the end of 2020, Myanmar has became the most secretive nation in Asia. A military coup was created after the elections, thousands of innocent people murdered due to how ignorant Min Aung Hlaing is, protesters get beaten and placed in jail, the economy is dying, Aung Sang Suu Kyi is kidnapped and is probably tortured to death, and the US has done nothing about the military coup and Min Aung Hlaing.

The government restricts Muslims and other members of different religions and acts like a bully to them by prosecuting them.

Very corrupt, poor country, bad government.

8 Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in Western Asia, on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and shares maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. It is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying 555,000 square kilometres (214,000 square miles). The coastline stretches for about... read more

Super poor. The rich oil states need to take care of this place, or the rich oil states take in refugees from poor parts of the Middle East and Africa

9 Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a Western Asian country located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is a unitary republic that consists of 14 governorates (subdivisions), and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. Cyprus lies to the west across the... read more

I agree with ror. It's true who doesn't know that one of world's corrupt country has news of people dying from both sides everyday and also everyday they either die from ISIS or government.

Super dangerous, maybe once it was a nice, clean, safe place. NOPE.

In The Asia O. O? Whatever the title it is mispelled..
Syria is the most corrupted country in Asia.. Everyday almost like 50~60 people dies due to the wars their between 2 armies... I don, t know why people should die there :'( even they aren, t guilty.. They die because of mistakes by governments..

10 Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072... read more

They need to get rid of the Taliban already, or have Iran take care of this nasty place

The Contenders
11 Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia. Ruled by the Dutch for over 300 years and Japan for 3 years and 6 months, the country gained independence in 1945, or exactly in 17th August 1945. Jakarta is the capital city, located in the island of Java. Major languages include Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Javanese, Sundanese and Minangkabau. Islam is the largest... read more

It's not just the government, it's the security and most of the local mentality bribe and get half of what you asked for, add more and get almost 90% of the job done. Government who are being asked to do something good for the public, would always ask you back: "what's in it for me? ". This country has been sneaky about corruption and no local has really spoken about the issue until recently where it's getting worst- as they are used to the system being the way it is.

Example: 12 year old rides a motorbike without a lisence or a helmet- police comes not to lecture about the dangers of not having a helmet etc, they wait and raid until they get "uang rokok" ("coffee/ cigar/ pocket money"). This is normal or usual for islands in Indonesia such as Bali (most touristic island in the country).

Indonesia is one of the most corrupt country in the world today. Which is the third most corrupt country in the world. Who can beat us? Laugh out loud '
I love how we can act so stupid together, and not care what anyone thinks! Shame on you.

12 Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in Western Asia. Iraq is currently led by President Fuad Masum and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. It is currently ranked 160th in the Institute for Economics & Peace's Global Peace Index, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world (behind only South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Syria).
13 Cambodia Cambodia is a Southeast Asian nation whose landscape spans low-lying plains, the Mekong Delta, mountains and Gulf of Thailand coastline. Its busy capital, Phnom Penh, is home to the art deco Central Market, glittering Royal Palace and the National Museum's historical and archaeological exhibits. In the country's northwest lie ruins of Angkor Wat, a massive stone temple complex built during the Khmer... read more

Please don't shift blame to innocent ordinary people. The corruption for this country has been seen existing in most of the government administration for decades due to the abusive power of a minor high-ranking group who has led the country in a corrupted way and with the poor legal system as a whole.

I've lived in China, Japan and travel around Korea, Thai, Vietnam and Philippines and by far this has to be the most corrupt country in east Asia, even the border officials scam you.

It should be the first most corrupt country
Even ordinary people scam you, if they know you're not khmer they'll scam you..greedy people

14 Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated 8 million people in 2013, and an area of 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi) and an estimated population of 9,537,645 people. Its capital and largest city is Dushanbe. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north and China to the east. The... read more
15 Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 163 million people in an area of either 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi) or 147,570 square kilometres (56,980 sq mi), making it one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Bangladesh shares land borders with India... read more

Corruption is in the air. Police, politicians, prime minister every single person in this country is corrupted. Rich people doesn't pay taxes, most of the people are in poverty, sometime Bangladesh behaves like Korea... I was there for 6 yrs and it was like hell on earth...

I am a kid living in bangladesh and I can say that bangladesh is one of the most corrupted countries of the world.

Should be number one. Prime minister is a dictator and opposition members are imprisoned or killed.

16 Iran Iran, also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a sovereign state in Western Asia. The capital city is Teheran and the major city is also Tehran. The country's official language is Persian.

Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. The country's rich cultural legacy is reflected... read more

Haha are you kidding me? I'm Iranian myself and I say that Iran should be number 1! The government spends money in palestine, Lebanon and Syria when poverty fraction is 50% and that's all because they want to stay in power. They're always looking for war and saying about Israel and defending stupid palestine. People hate palestine more than Israel because they're bloodsuckers and are eating our money and sources and EVERYTHING and keep saying about Iranian people. Politicans get salaries more than 500000 dollars per month. The normal salary that a family makes is 500 usd per month and the money that you need to live is 1500 usd a month. I can't say all bad things in Iran that government did to us buti can say that our government is the worst government in the world

Iran and saudi arabia have the worst people and government because they don't think about humanity. They have wars because of the difference of their islamic rules. They are just trying to proove which islam is better and they are not friends.worst countries ever.

17 Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ashgabat is the capital and largest city of the country. The population of the country is about 6 million, the lowest of the Central Asian republics. Turkmenistan is one of the most sparsely... read more
18 Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

The Government are very brutal in "listening" to opions against themselves. They always pretend to try to help the country, but in fact they do nothing and try to get the money from the local people thru foolish policies. Besides, they live in the black box and never want to do transparency. To all the people of freedom, the government in Vietnam look like "a big elephant in the room".

While in a tour bus in vietnam the cops stopped our bus to get money from our driver. They had two officers doing this and it looked like they were doing shifts. Ultimately the bus driver got more than the bribe back in tips. Now I'm doing an oral presentation on it.

Pay as you go system! From the lowest form of Government up the top, every one have to pad the paper works with cash (prefer brand new U.S. currencies).

19 Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a sovereign state located in South Asia.

It is home of the famous Gurkhas whose name come from a small district in Nepal called Gorkha. The name Gorkha came from the legendary Indian sage Gorakhnath who did spent later part of his life in the mountain of Gorkha. These Gorkhas later became Nepali who are known as peaceful people... read more

Not just the leaders even other officials in Nepal are extremly corrupt. I fear Nepal's Never gonna recover from this earthquake only because of corrupt leaders and officials.

No doubt almost all of the politicians and government officials are corrupt.

Nepal is corrupt but after eartquake Nepal will comeback if not there is people moment 3.

20 Thailand Thailand, historically known as Siam and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of Mainland Southeast Asia, spanning 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi), with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to... read more

Uneducated tourists look at Thailand and call it one of the most corrupt countries. How did a corrupt country have universal healthcare and a solid infrastructure (when compared with neighboring countries). Among Asean states, Thailand has attracted the biggest foreign FDI from Japan and beyond. There is also no "racial politics" in this country. I live in America, and the Government cheats us with fake healthcare, with never-ending corporate lobbies (with Trillions of Dollars at stakes), by deeming corporate interests to be more important that the environment and the world climate. Cops kill black people and get away with it every day. The fake-news press lies everyday with no accountability. Asian Americans are kept out of politics and they have never never nominated to important public office. Infrastructures are also crumbling in the States. DC and New York have some of the worst metro services in the world. Really, what defines "corruption"?

21 Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It has a land area of about 2,150,000 km2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world, and the largest in Western Asia. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Qatar and... read more

Saudi Arabia is the best country in the world. We love Saudi Arabia the humanity, living style and honesty of people.

Saudi is the mother of evil, biggest problem maker in middle-east. Saudi king is a stupid slave of America.

Why is everyone saying US is making countries corrupt? Giving countries money doesn't make it corrupt...

22 Uzbekistan Uzbekistan is a landlocked country. It is one of two doubly landlocked countries in the world, a country completely surrounded by landlocked countries in Central Asia.

Uzbekistan’s Muruntan gold mine is one of the largest open pit gold mines in the world.

Elders are respected in Uzbek culture. At the dusterhon, younger guests will not make themselves more comfortable than their elders... read more

Come on! This is number 2

23 Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation (RF), is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, covering over 17,125,191 square kilometres (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and borders sixteen sovereign nations, the most of any country in the world... read more

Russia is in Europe

24 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and known from the beginning of British colonial rule until 1972 as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia near south-east India.

Most of the politicions in the ruling party are ruthless, uneducated, dictator like, stealing money, and so on and so forth. Country is in debt for China. We, the people of this country are paying for all that as taxes.

Earlier comment is right. Most politicians are corrupt and top leaders have stolen half the countries wealth. Nobody wants these people punished.

25 Laos Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), or commonly referred to its colloquial name of Muang Lao is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.

I am of Laotian heritage, but Laos is just so corrupt. It's a bad stain on not just my heritage, but on the country my parents once lived in. Not to mention the corruption is probably a factor as to why dung has to be used for cooking fuel.

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