Paid Parental Leave in Georgia
After the recalculation, Georgia's raw value is 26.1 weeks and its score is 63. The indicator uses the World Bank Women, Business and the Law 2026 Parenthood dataset: paid leave days available to mothers plus paid leave days available to fathers, divided by 7.
Georgia therefore has a meaningful legal baseline, but it is no longer treated as a top-tier paid-leave system in this ranking. The WBL 2026 row counts 183 paid days available to mothers and 0 paid days available to fathers. That is enough to place Georgia above countries with only short or no paid statutory leave, but it remains far below systems with long paid entitlements for both parents.
The practical effect also depends on coverage. Formally employed parents benefit most from statutory leave rules and social-insurance procedures. Self-employed workers, informally employed workers and families with unstable employment relationships can face much weaker protection. This implementation gap is why the article should not be read as a guarantee that every parent receives 26.1 weeks of fully paid time off in practice.
For relocating families, the key point is to check the employment contract and the actual employer policy before relying on parental-leave income. Georgia offers a clearer baseline than many low-leave countries, but it does not match countries where long paid leave is broadly funded, transferable between parents and strongly integrated into the social-security system.
Sources
- World Bank Women, Business and the Law 2026 - data downloads
- Matsne - Labour Code of Georgia
- International Labour Organization - Georgia labour-law profile
This article was created on May 31, 2026
