Armenia is effective in property rights protection and justice

“LUYS” Foundation has analyzed the “Index of RA Economic Freedom-2026” report published by “Heritage” Foundation.

In 2026, Armenia ranks 52nd in the world ranking table, which includes 176 countries, with 67.1 points in the economic freedom index (EII). Armenia is included in the “Europe” region, in the ranking of which it is 28th among 44 countries. According to TAI, Armenia is 1.8 points lower than the average rating of the “Europe” region.

• According to the TAI methodology, in 2026 (for 5 years already), Armenia is considered an economically “moderately free” country. In 2017, Armenia was included in the group of “mostly free” countries.
• Armenia is considered an economically “free” country with 2 of the 12 sub-indices of TAI, 6 as “mostly free”, 2 as “mostly not free”, and 2 as “oppressed”. by the way “pressured” Armenia’s scores on two sub-indices: “Protection of Property Rights” and “Effectiveness of Justice” are significantly lower from their global average levels.

  Both sub-indices classified as “oppressed” are from the same “Rule of Law” group. Armenia’s situation in that group continues to be the most unfavorable of all groups, because the value of the last, third sub-index of the group, “Absence of Corruption”, is among the 12 sub-indexes. is the 3rd lowest։

The first of the sub-indices classified as “stressed”, “Protection of property rights”, which is calculated based on the factors “risk of confiscation of private (material) property”, “level of protection of intellectual property” and “applicability of contracts, property rights and laws”, has significantly decreased compared to the previous year. In other words, the report also documents the significant decline of this sector.

The second sub-index, “Effectiveness of Justice”, is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the indicators “independence of the judicial system”, “quality of the judicial process” and “perceptions of the quality of public services and the independence of the civil service”.

Այսինքն՝ The extremely low level of Armenia’s sub-index indicates serious problems in these directions as well. By the way, the low efficiency of the judicial system has been mentioned as a weak point in terms of economic freedom in Armenia for several years.

The “Effectiveness of Regulations” sub-index “Labor Freedom” has not changed compared to last year. This circumstance is puzzling, because the current high-ranking government officials keep declaring that one of the most important indicators for calculating the sub-index, labor productivity, has increased significantly in recent years. By the way, the rest of the indicators used for the calculation of the sub-index, the values ​​of which are fixed by law, did not change during the considered period.

The full analysis is available at: by reference.

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