Presenting the results of the Global Corruption Barometre 2016, the research conducted in 42 countries of Europe and central Asia with more than 60,000 people interviewed, TI representatives said that Bosnia belongs to a group of countries with negative indicators in all categories, together with Armenia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
"These countries have the most serious corruption problems," spokeswoman for TI BiH Ivana Koraljic said.
A total of 82% of the respondents in Bosnia negatively assessed the measures authorities were taking in the fight against corruption, more than 56% of the respondents perceive government officials as corrupted while 53% of the respondents the word corrupted automatically associate with top state officials, such as president or prime minister.
The respondents in Bosnia believe the least corrupted are leaders of religious communities.
Approximately 27% of the respondents admitted to having bribed someone in 2016, saying that traffic police officers and health personnel were those taking bribes the most.
As many as 55% of the respondents in Bosnia believe it is not socially acceptable to report corruption. A total of 33% of the respondents said they would never report corruption because they fear possible consequences.