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Geography
Area : 69,700 km²
Borders : 1,814 km of land borders (Armenia: 219 km, Azerbaijan: 428 km, Russia: 894 km, Turkey: 273 km)
Coastline : 310 km
Capital : Tbilissi
Official language : Georgian
Source : The CIA World Factbook
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Population
Population : 4,900,961 (2024)
Crude natural change rate : -5,7‰ (2023 est.)
Crude net migration rate: -3.8‰ (2024 est.)
Life expectancy: men 68.7 years, women 77.2 years (2024 est.)
Religions: Eastern Orthodox Christian (official) 83.4%, Muslim 10.7%, Armenian Apostolic Christian 2.9%, other 1.2% (includes Roman Catholic Christian, Jehovah's Witness, Yazidi, Protestant Christian, Jewish), none 0.5%, unspecified/no answer 1.2% (2014 est.)
Ethnic groups: Georgian 86.8%, Azeri 6.3%, Armenian 4.5%, other 2.3% (includes Russian, Ossetian, Yazidi, Ukrainian, Kist, Greek) (2014 est.)
Source : CIA World Factbook
Economy
Currency: Georgian Lari (GEL) (exchange rate in July 2024: 1€ = 3.01 GEL)
GDP: $ 7.7 billion (2023 est.)
GDP per capita (PPS): $ 8,218.8 (2023)
GDP growth : 7.5% (2023)
Inflation: 2.2% (2023)
Public debt: 39.8% of GDP (December 2023)
Unemployment: 16.4% (Q1 2024)
Public deficit: -3% of GDP (December 2022)
Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: $ 1,388.2 million (2023 est.)
Source : National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT), IMF World Economic Outlook, Trading Economics
Political system
Republic, parliamentary democracy
Head of State Salome Zourabichvili (Independent), took office on December 16th, 2018 for a 5-year term.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze (Georgia Dream), appointed on 8th February 2024
Unicameral parliamentary system The Parliament of Georgia (Sakartvelos Parlamenti) comprises 150 seats; the members of Parliament are elected for a 4 year-term by universal suffrage according to a mixed system.
Political representation
Composition of the Parliament of Georgia (in December 2023)
- 76 seats Georgian Dream
- 20 seats Strength in Unity
- 9 seats People’s Power
- 5 seats For Georgia
- 5 seats Group of Reforms
- 4 seats Girchi
- 4 seats European Socialists
- 2 seats Lelo
- 2 seats Citizens
- 2 seats Euro-optimists
- 2 seats Freedom
- 1 seat Law and Justice
- 1 seat National Democratic Party
- 1 seat State for the People
- 6 seats Independent
- 10 seats vacant
EU-Georgia relations
- June 2014 : Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA). In March 2022, Georgia submitted its EU membership application. In June 2022, the Commission, endorsed by the European Council, outlined 12 priorities. In November 2023, the Commission deemed that Georgia responded adequately to these priorities. On 14th December 2023, the European Council granted EU candidate status to Georgia.
Women's representations
- in government: 2/13
- in the Parliament: 27/140
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