The World Bank has published a recent survey by the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), according to which Georgia is among the top 20 European countries, which best control corruption. A total of 189 countries were included in the survey, with Georgia scoring better than 13 EU member states, which are as follows: Spain, Cyprus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Hungary, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Per the Corruption Index, Georgia leads all countries in the region, with Estonia and Lithuania only scoring better than Georgia from the post-Soviet countries.
The WGI data are based on tens of large-scale surveys, assessments, and ratings by the world's leading research centers, such as the Global Corruption Barometer, Transparency International Open Budget Index, The Rule of Law Index, Freedom House reports, and others.
The WGI are composite governance indicators based on over 30 underlying data sources. These data sources are rescaled and combined to create the six aggregate indicators using a statistical methodology known as an unobserved components model. A key feature of the methodology is that it generates margins of error for each governance estimate.
The WGI reports on six broad dimensions of governance for over 214 countries and territories, including 189 World Bank member countries.
