2018 data: 20% of Georgia’s population under absolute poverty line

About 20.1 per cent of Georgia’s population is under the absolute poverty line, shows the latest data of 2018 poverty indicators published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).

Georgia’s population has slightly decreased, reaching 3,723,500 people as of January 1, 2019, says another data from Geostat.

Most people under absolute the poverty line live in the country’s rural areas.

Geostat said that the share of the population under absolute poverty line is 23.1 per cent in rural Georgia and 18 per cent in urban areas.

The share of the population under 60 percent of the median consumption is 20.05 per cent (urban – 17.2 per cent, rural – 25.4 per cent), said Geostat.

Meanwhile, the share of population under 40 percent of the median consumption is 7.6 per cent (urban – 6.6 per cent, rural – 9.1 per cent).

To note, the average monthly salary in Georgia was 1,202 GEL (about $448.51/€394.92) in the fourth quarter of 2018, said Geostat.