Tbilisi starts preparatory works of census
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Preparatory works for the universal census of Georgian population begins.
The Minister of Regional Development David Narmania and Deputy Director of GeoStat Tengiz Tsekvava will provide further details today.
For the first phase of the census, the existing buildings of the Capital city and their actual inhabitants will be counted. GeoStat has provided 800 registers, which will carry out the field work for 14 days.
Within the frames of the census 2014, preparatory works have already been conducted in Ajara, Guria and Kakheti. Composition of the full list throughout whole Georgia will end in May 2014.
4 thousand people will be employed for the preparatory works.
Improving the population in some of Georgia’s abandoned mountain areas is the topic of discussion at a special conference at the Courtyard Marriot hotel today.
Georgia has launched its first Census in 12 years. The Census 2014 will measure a number of vital statistical information and will continue for 15 days.
Georgia’s population tends to trend downward since 2002, Head of the Census and Demography Division of Georgian National Statistics Office (GeoStat) Paata Shavishvili said today.
Preliminary data from the country’s first Census in 12 years has been released today.
Three million people live in Georgia - 15% less than 2002
Georgia’s first Census in 12 years has been released and shows the country’s population has decreased by about 650,000 people since 2002.