Georgia ranks 49th in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2023 report, with 53 points, ahead of 6 EU member states: Malta, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, and outperforms the following EU candidate countries -Montenegro, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Turkey, and Albania.

Last year, Georgia ranked 41st with 56 points.

“Georgia has become a leader in the Black Sea and Caucasus region when it comes to freedom from corruption. Its rank is higher than that of all EU and NATO members, 10 countries in total, and all candidate countries”, - said Deputy Finance Minister Mikheil Dundua.

Transparency International ranks countries and territories around the globe by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).