David Cameron has been overheard telling the Queen there are some “fantastically corrupt” countries coming to a UK anti-corruption summit on Thursday.
Speaking at an event at Buckingham Palace to mark the monarch’s 90th birthday, he added these countries included Nigeria and Afghanistan – “two of the most corrupt countries in the world”.
A table measuring corruption levels of countries around the world scores Afghanistan and Nigeria poorly, but they are not at the bottom of the list.
A 2015 table compiled by Transparency International, which works to stop corruption, rates Afghanistan 166th out of 168 countries, with a score of 11 out of 100. Nigeria is ranked 136th, with a score of 26.
The UK is joint 10th in the table with a score of 81 – the same as Germany and Luxembourg. Denmark tops the table with a score of 91.
Somalia and North Korea are bottom of the list.