Economy
Posted: 3 years ago

19.5% of Georgians Under the Absolute Poverty Line

19.5% of Georgians are under the absolute poverty line, according to the 2019 data of Geostat.

National Statistics Office of Georgia reports that the share of the population under the absolute poverty line is 23.7% in rural and 16.4% - in urban areas.

20.1% of the Georgian population lived below the absolute poverty line in 2018.