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Democracy is in trouble around the world due to rising corruption, according to Transparency International.

Their recently released study analyzing the corruption level of each country finds that unfortunately, most countries are getting worse.

Countries like the US, Brazil, and Australia all saw increases in corruption, while Senegal, Estonia, and the Ivory Coast have improved.

Without further ado, here are the most and least corrupt countries in the world. Are you surprised?

▲Here are the countries perceived to be the most corrupt in the world.

▲The land of fire and ice is known for its progressive culture and has a score of 76.

▲The semi-autonomous city is the fourth-highest ranked city in the Asia Pacific and also has a score of 76.

▲The winter sports capital of Europe, this landlocked nation got a score of 76.

▲Down Under has seen its transparency score drop significantly over the past two years.

▲The United Kingdom is perennially in the news for Brexit, and has seen its transparency score slowly slip over the past three years, now sitting at 80.

▲Tiny but wealthy, the nation of Luxembourg has a transparency score of 81. While that's quite high, it's slipped from its score of 85 in 2015.

▲Canada is the highest-ranked country for transparency in the Americas, with a score of 81. That's slipped slightly from a score of 83 in 2015.

▲The Netherlands are the highest-ranked EU country outside of Scandinavia, with a score of 82.

▲Despite being ranked one of the most transparent countries in the world, Norway's score has tumbled significantly to a score of 84 from a score of 88 in 2015.

▲Known as the world's bank, Switzerland has a transparency score of 85.

▲World hockey champions and IKEA creators, Sweden also has a transparency score of 85.

▲This unique, island city-state has some of the strictest rules in the world for littering and financial practices. Singapore also has a transparency score of 85.

▲Longtime transparency leader Finland has seen its score drop five points since 2015, but is still ahead most of the world with a score of 85.

▲The Asia-Pacific's transparency leader is the home of the Kiwis, with a transparency score of 87.

▲The least corrupt country in the world is Denmark, with a transparency score of 88.

▲The Central African country's government has banned social media for nearly a year and has a transparency score of 19.

▲Long troubled by internal conflict and more recently Ebola, this resource-rich nation also has a transparency score of 19.

▲The ancient country has been ravaged by nearly constant war for the past four decades, has massive oil reserves, and a transparency score of 18.

▲One of the world's biggest oil reserves lies in Venezuela, a country that could have the wealth of a Scandinavian or Gulf state, but instead has a transparency score of 18. It's the lowest-ranked country in the Americas.

▲Now in the process of kicking out aid groups ahead of their 2020 election, Burundi received a transparency score of 17.

▲Suffering from decades of war, the US and the Taliban have worked out a peace agreement in Afghanistan, a country with a transparency score of 16.

▲Now opening up exploitation of its off-shore oil reserves, Equatorial Guinea has a transparency score of 16.

▲Guinea Bissau's major source of income is exporting cashews, and it has a transparency score of 16.

▲The country with the lowest transparency score in the Asia Pacific is rogue state North Korea, with a score of 14.

▲Currently under siege by a Saudi-led insurgency, the ancient country of Yemen has a transparency score of 14.

▲Syria is only now beginning to recover from its civil war, and has a transparency score of 13.

▲The United Nations were kicked out of Somalia on the second day of 2019 after they arrested a militant who was running for political office. Somalia has a transparency score of 10.

▲Countries are graded from 0 to 100, with 0 being highly corrupt and 100 being highly transparent. These are the least corrupt nations in the world according to Transparency International.

▲One of the newest nations in the world, recently separated from Sudan, has a transparency score of 13.

▲Known for their staunch, rule-abiding culture, Germany's transparency score has remained stable over the past three years. It now also has a score of 80.

▲Corruption runs rampant in this North African country, which holds a transparency score of just 17.

▲This Sub-Saharan African country has had the same score for the past two years, skating by with a low 16.