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Percentage of population affected by bribery proposals from public officials in Latin American countries in 2023

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Release date

May 2024

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Region

Latin America and the Caribbean

Survey time period

2023

Number of respondents

1,512 respondents

Age group

16 years or older

Special properties

twelve months prior to the conduct of the survey

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

The Latin American countries surveyed were: Bolivia, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Argentina, Jamaica, Haiti, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, and Paraguay.
The source does not specify the number of respondents.
The questions asked were as follows:
"- Has any police officer asked you for a bribe in the last twelve months?
- In the last twelve months, has any other public official asked you for a bribe?"
The source specifies that the answers to these questions were converted into an index, from which the percentage of respondents who were victims of bribery was calculated.

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Mexico is the Latin American country where corruption within public employment and bribes are part of everyday life. Thus, ** percent of participants in a study conducted in 2023 in the Aztec nation stated that they had been encouraged or forced to offer a bribe. Despite this, the country in the region with the highest demand for bribes was Nicaragua. Uruguay, for its part, records the lowest level of such proposals.