Which region of Georgia is the most corrupt?

According to the Subnational Corruption Database, the most corrupt region of Georgia is Ajaria, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 54.3/100 (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt) in 2022.

Which region of Georgia is the least corrupt?

The least corrupt region of Georgia is Guria, with a Subnational Corruption Index of 61.5/100 in 2022.

How corrupt is Georgia?

In 2022, Georgia had a national Subnational Corruption Index of 58/100 (higher = cleaner), with grand corruption (SGCI) at null/100 and petty corruption (SPCI) at 64.1/100 (last directly observed in 2014). The Subnational Corruption Database covers 10 regions of Georgia from 1995 to 2022.

Country profile - GEO

Corruption in Georgia

10 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 58 (2022).

Grand: - Petty: 64.1 Latest observed: 2014

Georgia: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Georgia is Ajaria (54.3/100), and the least corrupt is Guria (61.5/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 10 regions are ranked below.

In 2022, Georgia's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 58/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
Most corrupt region: Ajaria (SCI 54.3/100, 2022).
Least corrupt region: Guria (SCI 61.5/100, 2022).
Grand corruption (SGCI): /100; petty corruption (SPCI): 64.1/100 (last directly observed in 2014).
Trend: Georgia's SCI moved from 39.6/100 (1995) to 58/100 (2022).
Coverage: 10 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Georgia compares: SCD vs. the CPI and World Bank

The Subnational Corruption Index is scored 0–100 on the same orientation as Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (higher = cleaner). The difference: the CPI and the World Bank measure the perceptions of experts and business executives and report one national number, while the SCI is built from what ordinary households perceive and experience — and it breaks Georgia into 10 regions.

Index	Latest	Scale	Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI)	58	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI	56	0–100 (100 = cleanest)	Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption	0.6	≈ −2.5 to 2.5	Aggregated expert sources

Most recent year — SCI 2022, CPI 2022, CCI 2022. The SCD also publishes region-anchored SUB-CPI and SUB-CCI series so the CPI and World Bank measures can be read at the regional level.

SCI trajectory - 1995-2022

Country-level mean of the Subnational Corruption Index, averaged across all 10 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

Source: SCD v1.0 (Comprehensive Dataset). Years where the panel was filled by inter/extrapolation are included in the country mean.

Regions (10)

Each row is a sub-national region with its latest SCI score. Click into any row for the region's full time series.

#	Region	GDL code	Years	Latest SCI
1	Ajaria	GEOr102	1995-2022	54.3
2	Kakheti	GEOr105	1995-2022	56.2
3	Mtskheta-Mtianeti	GEOr107	1995-2022	56.5
4	Shida Kartli	GEOr110	1995-2022	56.5
5	Samegrelo-Zemo Svateni	GEOr108	1995-2022	57
6	Samtskhe-Javakheti	GEOr109	1995-2022	58.4
7	Tbilisi	GEOr111	1995-2022	59
8	Kvemo Kartli	GEOr106	1995-2022	59.4
9	Imereti Racha-Lochkhumi Kvemo Svaneti	GEOr104	1995-2022	60.7
10	Guria	GEOr103	1995-2022	61.5

Download Georgia

Per-country panel slice in CSV format. Columns: iso, country, gdl, region, year, sci. Direct dataset citations should reference the Figshare deposit (see How to cite).

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