Census 2014 underway in Georgia
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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.
The new census is expected to reveal a significant population decrease resulting from high emigration rates and low fertility.
GeoStat, the country’s National Statistics Office, are responsible for carrying out the survey, which will see about 12,300 employees go door-to-door and survey every citizen and foreign resident in Georgia.
The census will also record the level of agricultural activity.
"The operation, with its scale and content, represents a unique source of data and information on the social, economic and demographic state of the population,” Meri Duashvili, GeoStat’s executive director told European news publication Business News Europe (BME).
Surveying will take place from November 5-19 across the country, with the exception of Georgia’s two breakaway regions Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The census will determine the population size and how its composed (gender, age) employment rate level of education and health, livelihood and household conditions, agricultural activities and more.
Meanwhile residents in 382 villages in Georgia’s mountainous areas were surveyed in September as bad weather was forecast for November.
The last Census took place in 2002.
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.
Georgia’s population has slightly decreased, reaching 3,718,200 people as of January 1, 2017, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
Deputy Executive Director of Georgia’s National Statistics Tengiz Tsekvava says that based on the 2014 census, the population of Georgia was 3.7 million, which is lower in comparison to previous years.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday congratulated the Yazidi community in the country on Aida Sarsale, the New Year holiday celebrated by the minority group.