Georgia’s population exceeds over 3m as of January 2017

Georgia’s population has slightly decreased, reaching 3,718,200 people as of January 1, 2017, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).

Year-on-year (y/y) Georgia’s population decreased by 0.1 percent. 

Georgia's urban area is still more populated than rural. 57.2 percent (2,128,600 people) of total population live in urban area and 42.8 percent (1,589,600 people) in rural area, said Geostat. 

Tbilisi, a capital city of Georgia, has been growing immensely and this year’s data show 1,114,600 people live in the city as of January 1, 2017.

How many people live in Georgia’s regions:

• Imereti – 529,700 people
• Kvemo Kartli – 427,400 people
• Adjara Autonomous Region – 339,000 people
• Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti – 328,300 people
• Kakheti – 317,500 people
• Shida Kartli – 263,700 people
• Samtskhe-Javakheti – 160,600 people
• Guria – 112,600 people
• Mtsketa-Mtianeti – 93,800 people
• Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti – 31, 000 people

Georgia’s population by age and sex

There are more women in Georgia than men. The data revealed 52.1 percent of Georgia’s population were female, while 47.9 percent were male.

Geostat said the share of men in whole population increased by 0.1 percent and reached 1,781,500 persons, while share of women decreased by 0.2 percent and reached 1,936,700 persons.

Meanwhile, the latest data showed people aged 0-14 made up 19.5 percent of total population, while age group of 15-64 made up 66.1 percent. As for people aged 65 or more they made up 14.5 percent of total population.

Life extension was about 72.7 years in 2016. For male the average life extension was 68.3 years and for female – 77.2 years.

Migration

There were 98,300 emigrants (2.4 percent increase y/y) and 90,200 immigrants (2.5 percent decrease y/y) in 2016.

The 2014 General Census does not include the information about population living in Georgia’s breakaway regions.