Georgia has ranked 29th with a score of 7.56 out of 10 in the 2023 Index of Public Integrity by the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-building.

This is country’s highest-ever rating position.

Moving up from the 32nd place in the latest edition of the ranking, the country outperformed 11 member states of the EU and NATO, as well as all other EU candidates. Georgia surpassed Belgium, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Malta, Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel, Albania, North Macedonia, etc.

It also progressed in judicial independence, advancing 21 places from the 57th to the 36th position and securing a spot in the top 20 in Europe. It also outpaced 16 EU and NATO member states, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Malta, Latvia, Hungary, Turkey and North Macedonia.

For the indicator of administrative transparency, Georgia received 10 points, achieving the best result globally, on par with 10 other states with identical scores.

The ranking is based on studies and reports from international entities such as the UN, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, with the project backed by the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the EU.