Georgia ranks in Europe’s top ten for Freedom from Organised Crime
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The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has published its 2025 Organized Crime Index, which ranked Georgia 34th worldwide for having one of the lowest levels of organised crime, placing the country among Europe’s top ten and fifth among EU member and candidate states together with Estonia.
With its freedom from organised crime - meaning the low level of criminal activity - Georgia outperformed all G7 countries, as well as 35 states that are members of the OECD, the European Union, the Schengen Area, and NATO.
These countries include: the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Malta, Cyprus, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Turkey, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, and South Korea.
Among EU member and candidate states, six countries received the highest evaluation for their freedom from organised crime - Luxembourg, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Georgia, and Estonia.
The Global Organized Crime Index is one of the flagship projects of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
It is a multidimensional tool assessing the level of organised crime and resilience against it in 193 countries based on three main pillars: criminal markets, criminal actors, and resilience. Developed over a two-year period, this third iteration of the Index covers 2024 and relies on both quantitative and qualitative sources. The tool is based on more than 350 expert assessments from GI-TOC’s regional observatories.
The aim of the Index is to provide metric-based information to allow policymakers and continental and regional bodies to prioritise their interventions based on the assessments. It also equips them with the means to measure the effectiveness of responses aimed at reducing the impact of organised crime.
