Facts and figures of Georgia
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The land, people and electoral cycle
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Population (million)e |
3.7 |
Official language |
Georgian, Abkhazian (in Abkhazia) |
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Under 15 (%)e |
17.3 (18) |
Form of government |
Constitutional republic |
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Population density (per km2)e |
64 (37) |
Last presidential election |
October 27th 2013 |
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Land area (thousand km2) |
69.5 |
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The economy
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GDP, current prices (billion USD)d |
14.0 |
Exports of goods and servicesd (% of GDP) |
45.0 (49.2) |
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Latest 5-year average real GDP growthf |
3.8 (0.6) |
Imports of goods and servicesd (% of GDP) |
64.9 (46.0) |
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GDP per capita, PPP (thousand USD)f |
9.2 (37.2) |
GDP shares (%)e |
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Inflation ratee |
4.0 (0.6) |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing |
9.2 (2.5) |
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General government total expenditured (% of GDP) |
29.8 (41.9) |
Industry, including construction |
24.5 (26.6) |
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General government revenued (% of GDP) |
28.0 (38.0) |
Services |
66.3 (70.7) |
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Well-being
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Life satisfactiona (average on 1-10 scale) |
4.1 (6.5) |
Life expectancy d |
75 (80) |
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GDP per capitae (thousand USD) |
3.8 |
Proportion of population under national minimum income standarda (%) |
14.8 |
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Income inequality (Gini coefficient) b |
40 (31) |
Unemployment ratee (%)a |
13.4 (8) |
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Gender inequality (SIGI index) |
0.2035 (0.0224)e |
Youth unemployment rated (ages 15 to 24, %) |
34.1 (17.3) |
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Labour force participationd (% of 15 to 64 year old) |
69.8 (71.1) |
Satisfaction with the availability of affordable housinge (% satisfied) |
61.0 (45.7) |
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Employment-to-population ratioc (15 and over, %) |
22.3 |
Enrolment rates (%)Primary (Net)a |
99 |
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Population with access to improved sanitation facilitiese (%) |
86.3 |
Secondary (Gross)d |
99 |
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Expected years of schoolingc |
14.9 |
Tertiary (Gross)d |
39 (70) |
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Notes: a) Data for 2011; b) Data for 2012; c) Data for 2013; d) Data for 2014; e) Data for 2015. |
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Sources: World Bank (2015) World Development Indicators (database), http://data.worldbank.org/; OECD, Social Institutions and Gender index, http://www.genderindex.org; IMF (2015), World Economic Outlook Database, International Monetary Fund, April 2015 edition, Washington DC; AJG Simoes, CA Hidalgo. The Economic Complexity Observatory: An Analytical Tool for Understanding the Dynamics of Economic Development. www.atlas.media.mit.edu; UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), Data Centre, http://stats.uis.unesco.org; Exposure Data by Country, Global Health Observatory data repository, World Health Organisation Data, http://apps.who.int/gho/data/; UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s International Homicide Statistics database, https://www.unodc.org/gsh/en/data.html; Gallup (2015), Gallup World Poll (database), Gallup Organisation. |
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