Georgia among world top 20 for government transparency, says Gov’t Administration Head

Georgia’s ranking in the European Research Centre for Anti Corruption and State-Building’s latest Transparency in the Time of War index has jumped from 54th to 17th, Revaz Javelidze, the Head of the Government Administration, announced on Monday.

Javelidze said the country was “ahead of 15 EU member states and four G7 member states, along with such advanced countries as Finland, Sweden and Great Britain”.

The Index surveys the state of government transparency around the world by measuring 143 countries based on a survey of both “de facto” and “de jure” state of transparency in the states.

Screenshot from the report.

The former involves publications of information on the web, with the latter focusing on legal commitments.

In a separate Index of State Integrity by the Centre, the country maintained its ranking as 32nd with 6.72 points.

Javelidze said the position meant Georgia ranked “first in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region in terms of the integrity of the state sector”, and was only behind Estonia in the post-Soviet space.