Georgia scores 61 points on Freedom in the World report
Georgia scored higher on the 2019 Freedom in the World Report. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia has scored 61 points in the Freedom in the World 2020 report by Freedom House, an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, covering developments in 195 countries and 15 territories between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.
In the report in which zero describes the least free state and 100 the most free states, Georgia retained the status of a partially free state.
Last year Georgia’s score was 63, while in 2018 it was 64.
Freedom House found that 2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. The gap between setbacks and gains widened compared with 2018, as individuals in 64 countries experienced deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties while those in just 37 experienced improvements,” the report reads.
The 2020 Georgia country report by Freedom House will be released in the coming days.
Freedom House has released its Freedom in the World 2019 Report, which says that Georgia holds regular and competitive elections, and its democratic trajectory shows signs of improvement.
Georgia is among the world’s top ten countries, which enjoy freedom on the net, based on the Freedom House report released earlier today. The Freedom on the Net report assessed 65 countries between June 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019.
The Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili says that Freedom House’s latest report, Nations in Transit 2018, released yesterday is "extremely biased and based on unbalanced information” about Georgia. "I believe that Freedom House should think twice before it spreads such biased assessments about Georgia’s democratic development level,” the PM stated today about the report which lowered Georgia’s democracy score from 4.61 to 4.68.
Freedom House, a US-based, government-funded non-governmental organization for democracy, political freedom and human rights says in its Nation in Transit 2018 report that Georgia will not experience any political earthquakes in 2018.
Georgia has improved its Freedom on the Net ranking by one point compared to last year for a score of 76, bringing the country from tenth to seventh place in the global ranking, Freedom House reports.
Georgia has improved its Freedom on the Net ranking by one point compared to last year for a score of 77.