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This was the lowest score awarded to the United States in the index's 15-year history and also the first time it had fallen out of the top 20.http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-slips-to-historic-low-in-rb-3603521040.html?x=0Somalia was judged the most corrupt country, followed by Myanmar and Afghanistan at joint second-worst and then by Iraq, in the Berlin-based watchdog TI's annual corruption perceptions index (CPI).The United States fell to 22nd from 19th last year, with its CPI score dropping to 7.1 from 7.5 in the 178-nation index, which is based on independent surveys on corruption.In the Americas, this put the United States behind Canada in sixth place, Barbados at 17th and Chile in 21st place.Jointly heading the index -- in which a score of 10 indicates a country with the highest standards, and 0 as highly corrupt -- were Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore with 9.3. They were also at the top of the table last year.
