Georgia’s population increases slightly to 3.7 million as of January 2021
Year-on-year (y/y) Georgia’s population increased by 0.3%. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia’s population has slightly increased, reaching 3,728,600 people as of January 1, 2021, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
Year-on-year (y/y) Georgia’s population increased by 0.3%.
It should be mentioned that 2020 resulted in a negative natural increase (-4,017) and positive net migration (15,732)”, said Geostat.
Georgia's urban areas are more populated than rural. 59.4% of the total population live in urban areas and almost one third of the total population (1,202,700 people) live in the capital city of Tbilisi.
Georgia’s population by age and sex
There are more women in Georgia than men. The data revealed there are 1,796,200 men and 1,932,400 women living in Georgia as of January 2021.
Meanwhile, the latest data showed people aged 0-14 made up 20.5% of total population, while the age group of 15-64 made up 64.2%. As for people aged 65 or more they made up 15.2% percent of the total population.
Under the age of 4, the number of men exceeds that of women, while the opposite situation is observed for the age group of 40 and over, which could be explained by females’ higher life expectancy", said Geostat.
Life expectancy was about 73.4 years in 2020 and this is a decrease of 0.7 compared to the previous year. For men the average life extension was 69.1 years and for women it is 77.7 years.
As of January 1, 2021 the median age of the population equalled 38 years”, said Geostat.
Migration
There were 74,264 emigrants (-29.3% y/y) and 89,996 immigrants (-7.1% y/y) in 2020.
In Georgia 541,764 people, or 14.5% of the Georgian population receive social assistance from the state and this number has increased by 83,296 individuals in the last one year, announces the Social Service Agency of Georgia.
The Council of Europe’s new annual prison statistics report released earlier today says that Georgia is the third among the countries with the highest incarceration rates in Europe following Turkey and Russia.
In total 16,359 marriages were registered in 2020, showing a 29.7% decrease year-on-year, while the number of divorces equalled 7,643 decreasing by 31.8% compared to the previous year, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
The Georgian population has slightly decreased to 3,716,900 people as of January 1, 2020. The year-on-year (y/y) decrease was 0.2 per cent.
About 21.3% of Georgia’s population is under the absolute poverty line, shows the latest data of 2020 poverty indicators published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). The share of the population under the absolute poverty line increased by 1.8% in 2020 compared to 2019. The share of the population under the absolute poverty line increased by 1.8% in 2020 compared to 2019.Last year 19.5% of Georgia’s population lived under the absolute poverty line.
In total 2,587 people died from Covid-19 in 2020, which accounted for more than five per cent of total deaths in Georgia. The number of total deaths in Georgia in 2020 amounted to 50,537, while in 2019 this number was 46,659, with a mortality rate per 1,000 persons increased by 1.1%, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) reports.
The number of deaths has exceeded the number of births in Georgia in the first six months of 2021 by 3,982. Statistics published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) show that 21,839 people were born and 25,821 died in the country in January-June 2021. Geostat said that a population increase was only registered in two regions: Adjara (717) and Kvemo Kartli (195).
The next national census in Georgia will be held in 2024, the Governmental Coordination Commission for Census of Georgia announced on Monday.
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