2020: almost 5% more Georgians connected to internet than previous year
Among the Georgian population aged 15 years and older who used the internet within the last three months, the main reason for accessing the internet was to use social media (95.2 per cent). Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
Tweet 
Share
83.8 percent of Georgian households have internet access this year, which is 4.6 per cent per cent more compared to the previous year, says the survey of the National Statistics Office of Georgia.
Among the Georgian population aged 15 years and older who used the internet within the last three months, the main reason for accessing the internet was to use social media (95.2 per cent).
74 per cent of the population aged six years and older has used the internet within the last three months, which is 3.4 per cent more compared to the same indicator of last year.
Photo: Geostat.
94.7 percent of internet users aged 15 years and older, who used the internet within the last 3 months, have used a mobile device (mobile phone, laptop, tablet or other devices) to connect to wireless internet. This indicator is 95.6 percent for women, while it is 93.6 percent for men.
About 61.8 percent of households have a computer in Georgia.
Photo: Geostat.
80.6 percent of the population aged 15 years and older who used computers within the last three months, use computers every day or almost every day, while 12.8 percent use it at least once a week (but not every day) and 6.6 percent more rarely.
Moreover, 86.5 percent of the population aged six years and older owns a mobile phone.
The World Bank will allocate €35.7 million to support Georgia’s digital transformation and finance the project ‘Log-in Georgia’ which aims to increase high speed internet access across the country.
Georgia is continuing to develop high-speed internet infrastructure in the country's regional areas, making the internet accessible for the rural population.
Consumption of fixed internet doubled in the last six years and amounted to 914,000 households in the first quarter of 2020 which is 82 per cent of households in Georgia.
79.3 per cent of Georgian households have internet access, which is a 3.5 per cent increase compared to the same period of last year, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
Fiber-optic cables of international importance that provided Poti-Tbilisi-Bolnisi-Dmanisi-Armenia with internet were damaged, however the internet supply is now restored and Dmanisi and Marneuli police divisions under Kvemo Kartli Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have already launched an investigation.
The number of internet subscribers has increased to almost one million in Georgia in 2020, announces the Communication Commission of Georgia.
Half a million people living in almost a thousand settlements across Georgia, including in the highlands, will receive access to internet and services such as e-healthcare, education and governance thanks to a new project called 'Log in Georgia' which was launched today.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is considering Georgia to be one of the first pilot countries where the company will provide satellite internet, announces the Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA). "SpaceX has shown interest in the internetization process of Georgia. It is considering the involvement of Georgia and the Georgian people in its future plans”, reads the press-release published by the GITA.