29% of Latin American & Caribbean citizens paid bribe for public services

Almost one in three citizens in Latin America and the Caribbean paid a bribe in the past 12 months to use one of six public services, according to Transparency International research. The survey [1] of more than 22,000 people across 20 countries in the region found that 29% of respondents had paid either to access a school, hospital, obtain ID documents, for utilities or to the police or courts. If representative, the findings mean that 90 million people had offered a bribe.