Democracy Index 2020: Georgia ranks 91st of 165 countries
Georgia ranked 89th in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2019. Photo:Tbilisi City Hall press office.
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Georgia has ranked 91st of 165 countries and two territories in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2020.
Last year Georgia was 89th.
The report says that almost 70 per cent of countries covered by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index recorded a decline in their overall score due to the pandemic.
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The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties.
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Based on its scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime.
With a score of 5.31 Georgia remains in the group of hybrid regime.
The twelfth edition of the Democracy Index has ranked Georgia 89th among 167 independent states and two territories, with the score of 5.42 of total 10. With the score, which was 5.50 in 2018 ranking, Georgia remains in the category of ‘hybrid regimes.’ Of the neighbouring countries Armenia ranked 86th, Azerbaijan – 146th, Turkey – 110th and Russia – 134th.
The Open Budget Survey 2019 by the International Budget Partnership ranks Georgia 5th in the world out of 81 scores out of 100, based on an analysis of 117 nations’ budget transparency scorings, participation and oversight.
Georgia has risen in the rankings of the World Happiness Report published by the United Nations. This year Georgia came in 119th place in the World Happiness Report, while last year Georgia ranked 128th among the world’s happiest countries.
Georgia’s economic freedom score is 75.9, making its economy the 16th freest in the 2019 Index of Economic Freedom by the Heritage Foundation.
Georgia is now the highest ranked country on budget transparency in Open Budget Survey 2021 published by the International Budget Partnership on Tuesday.
Georgia is proud to be the top-ranked country on budget transparency internationally, Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili said on Tuesday at the presentation of the Results of the 2021 Open Budget Survey organised by the International Budget Partnership.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday reviewed his Government's cooperation with the United States-based National Endowment for Democracy foundation and Georgia’s “strategic partnership” with the US in a meeting with NED Chair Kenneth Wollack.