Georgia experienced 4.7 percent economic growth in the first eight months of 2017, show the latest data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
Meanwhile, the estimated real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate amounted to 4.3 percent year-on-year in August 2017.
Georgia’s Ministry of Economy announced that real GDP growth was observed in the following industries:
As the Ministry explained in August 2017 economic growth was mainly driven by increased external trade and export growth of products from the following sectors: