The World Bank published a new Enterprise Surveys in which over 164 000 of companies from 144 countries were involved and Georgia was ranked in the top 10 countries in terms of low bribery prevalence.

In Georgia, bribery incidence, which is the percent of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request, amounted to 1.3%, while this indicator reaches 10%.

In addition, bribery depth, which is defined as the per cent of public transactions in which a gift or informal payment was requested, amounted to 0.6% in Georgia.

In Georgia, business owners and top managers of 581 firms were interviewed for the study from March 2019 through January 2020.

The Enterprise Surveys implemented in European and Central Asian countries are also known as Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys (BEEPS) and are jointly conducted by the World Bank Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Commission (EC).