Anti-corruption watchdog ranks Georgia among best in region

Georgia has cemented its position as one of anti-corruption leaders among Eastern European and Central Asian countries, according to Transparency International’s (TI) recently-published 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

Georgia ranks 46th out of 180 countries, ahead of Eastern Partnership nations such as Armenia (107th) and Azerbaijan (122nd), with a score of 56 out of 100 - a one-point drop from 2016.

The index, which ranks countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is corruption-free.

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Despite the change, those behind the survey said according to the CPI methodology, only an increase or decrease of the CPI score by four points or more indicated a significant change in the perceived level of corruption in a country.

This means that over the past several years, experts’ perception of public sector corruption in Georgia has not deteriorated. In fact, the latest results showed the perceived level of corruption in the country had seen an overall improvement in past several years:

• In 2013 the country had CPI score of 49,
• In 2014-2015 – 52,
• In 2016 – 57.