Gov’t to set up working group to improve demographic trends
The meeting of the Council for Demographic Issues of Georgia by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. Photo: Government press office
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The Georgian Government on Tuesday announced it would set up a working group composed of deputy ministers that would draft amendments in the “shortest terms possible” to improve current demographic trends in the country.
The decision came following a meeting of the Council for Demographic Issues of Georgia, chaired by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, the Government Administration said.
Amendments offered by the working group will be focused on “policies for strengthening the family” and formulate specific recommendations that will be reflected in state-funded programmes to improve existing demographic trends in the country, the press office noted.
The meeting also reviewed the main goals of demographic development and the “best and relevant practices and international experience”.
The officials also discussed existing healthcare, social, employment, resettlement and migration initiatives, also designed to address demographic issues.
The Council for Demographic Issues of Georgia met on Thursday to review challenges and opportunities in employment, healthcare, migration and education in a bid to develop plans for improving demographic trends in the country.
Georgia’s population increased by 1.3 percent compared to 2021 and reached 3,736,400 people as of January 1, 2023 the National Statistics Office of Georgia said on Thursday in its latest update.
The head of the Georgian government administration Revaz Javelidze, and representatives of the country’s national statistics office on Wednesday discussed questions for the country’s 2024 census with the domestic office of the United Nations Population Fund and its officials.
The next national census in Georgia will be held in 2024, the Governmental Coordination Commission for Census of Georgia announced on Monday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday addressed the issue of surrogacy and called it a “sensitive” question at the Parliament.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday led a meeting of the state Demographic Council to discuss “current demographic trends” and needs for improvement of indicators across the county.
Gogita Todradze, the Head of the National Statistics Office of Georgia, on Friday said the next national census would be held later this year, with information about demographic composition and socio-economic factors of the population to be collected using “absolutely modern technology”.