Share of public who use wasta MENA 2018-2019, by reason
In 2018/2019, around 53 percent of survey respondents in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region stated that they used wasta or personal connections because they would not have received the service otherwise. More than one third of people who used public services in the past year in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region used wasta.