According to the index of Equal Rights Protection Index published by the Varieties of Democracy [V - Dem], Georgia received 84.9% with a 100% evaluation system and ranked 33rd in the world.

The Equal Rights Protection Index examines the extent to which the state’s protection of the rights and freedoms of social groups is based on equality.

Equal protection means that the state grants and protects rights and freedoms equally across social groups. In order to achieve equal protection of rights and freedoms, the state itself must not create unfair privileges and must also take measures so that the rights and freedoms of one social group are not threatened by the actions of another group or individual.

Georgia ranks ahead of all EU candidates, 17 NATO and/or EU member countries, 4 G7 states and various developed countries: the US, Canada, Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Croatia, Greece, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, etc.

V-Dem is one of the world’s largest scientific collaboration projects directly on democracy. It is headquartered at the V-Dem Institute in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The project is led by 5 principal investigators, 19 project managers, 33 regional managers, more than 134 coordinators and about 4,000 experts worldwide.