GEORGIA

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GEORGIA

• Compiled by Jane Charney
• May 14, 2008

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• Georgia borders Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and
  Turkey and has crucial ports on the Black Sea.
  Georgias breakaway regions of South Ossetia
  (north-central part) and Abkhazia (north-west)
  are circled. Georgia occupies a territory that is
  slightly smaller than South Carolina.

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History

• Known as Sakartvelo (Land of the Kartvelians)
• The territory of Georgia has been continuously
  inhabited since the early Stone Age
• Christianity declared state religion in 337 CE
• Occupied by Mongols, Persians Turks

• Became part of Imperial Russia in 19th Century
• Brief period of independence 1918-1921
• Incorporated into USSR in 1921
• Georgia gained independence from the Soviet Union
  May 9, 1991.
• Joined UN July 31, 1992

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Population

• Official count 4,646,003 (July 07 estimate)
• Ethnic groups
• Georgian 83.8
• Azeri 6.5
• Armenian 5.7
• Russian 1.5
• other 2.5
• (2002 census)

• Religions
• Orthodox Christian 83.9
• Muslim 9.9
• Armenian-Gregorian 3.9
• Catholic 0.8
• Other 0.8
• None 0.7
• (2002 census)

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Annual Population Growth - Percentage
Russia
Georgia
Population growth rate -0.329 (2007 est.)
Birth rate 10.54 births/1,000 (2007 est.) Death
rate 9.37 deaths/1,000 (2007 est.) Net
migration rate -4.45 migrants/1,000 (2007
est.)
Note 2007 data is estimated Source
World Development Indicators database
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Trends in Fertility
Blue Birth Rate Red Death Rate
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Life Expectancy at Birth
According to the data available, total life
expectancy has kept pretty steady since 1992,
which is surprising given the overall level of
unrest in the country and the lack of economic
stability. Source World Development Indicators
database
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Trends in Mortality
Source World Development Indicators database
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Adult Mortality Rate per 1,000
Source World Development Indicators Database
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Health Concerns

• Georgia boasts a high number of physicians per
  1,000 people 4.09 in 2003 (higher than during
  Soviet time)
• Smoking 53.3 men 6.3 women smoke (2001 data)
• AIDS 0.657 per capita (reported)
• Main causes of death Heart failure, diabetes
  mellitosis, suicide, birth-related injuries

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Trends in Family Formation

• The culture is extremely family-oriented and
  marriage is widely promoted
• Overall, most people are married, but the number
  of unmarried young people is growing.
• Divorce consistently low, but also too expensive
  so people are forced to remain married, but
  probably dont live together.

• Women are less likely to enter into a second
  marriage than men, but more likely in 2000s
  compared to early 1990s. According to official
  statistics, in 2004, more women entered into a
  second marriage than men. However, independent
  studies have questioned this statistic as being
  artificially inflated.

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Marriage

• The age at first marriage is increasing Median
  age was 28.4 for men and 24.3 for women in 2005,
  up by 2.5 for men and 1.7 for women since 1990.
• The number of women under 25 who live with a
  partner without any sort of marriage registration
  increased from 11.4 in 1997 to 36.7 in 2006,
  while the number of men in this category changed
  from 7.6 in 1997 to 26.7 in 2006.

Source 2002 Georgian National Census
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Church and Marriage

• The green shows the number of church marriages,
  while the yellow shows the number of registered
  marriages.
• The number of church marriages is high in the
  20-29 categories, whereas older people tend to
  have a registered marriage, but not a church one.
  
• The tendency for increased religiosity might
  lead to more church marriages, which in turn
  might lead to less registered marriages.

Source ?. ???????, ?. ???????????, ?. ?????????.
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Demoscope Weekly, March 31-April 13, 2008.
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Fertility Family
Children born within/outside marriage
Born outside of registered marriage
Born outside registered marriage
Born within registered marriage
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Population Aging

• Georgia will face problems in the future as birth
  cohorts are becoming smaller and the number of
  older people is increasing.

• 0-14 years 16.3
• (male 402,961/female 352,735)
• 15-64 years 67.1
• (male 1,496,802/female 1,610,725)
• 65 years and over 16.6
• (male 307,795/female 459,823) (2008 est.)

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Population pyramid 1995
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Population Pyramid 2005
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Population pyramid 2050
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Migration
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Georgian Refugees
308
Number of people who received refugee status from
UNHCR and who put down Georgia as their country
of origin. Source World Development Indicators
Database
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• Georgia

• Russia

• Population growth rate -0.329 (2007 est.)
• Birth rate 10.54 births/1,000 (2007 est.)
• Death rate 9.37 deaths/1,000 (2007 est.)
• Net migration rate -4.45 migrant(s)/1,000 (2007
  est.)
• Life Expectancy
• Male - 73 years
• Female - 80.07 years (2007 est.)

• Population Growth Rate -0.17
• Birth rate 11.28 births/1,000 (2007)
• Death rate 14.65 deaths/1,000 (2007)
• Net migration rate 0.28 migrant(s)/1,000 (2008
  est.)
• Life Expectancy
• Male 61.5 years
• Female 73.9 years (2007)

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Sources

• CIA World Factbook https//www.cia.gov/library/pu
  blications/the-world-factbook/geos/gg.html
• NationMaster http//www.nationmaster.com/country/
  gg-georgia
• World Development Indicators Database
  http//devdata.worldbank.org/query/default.htm
• ?. ???????, ?. ???????????, ?. ?????????.
  ???????????, ???? ? ??????????? ????? ? ??????.
  Demoscope Weekly, March 31-April 13, 2008.
  www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2008/0327/analit03.php
• France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Irina Badurashvili.
  Data quality of population and vital statistics
  in Caucasian countries in the post-soviet
  period.
• Badurashvili, I McKee, M Tsuladze, G Meslé, F
  Vallin, J Shkolnikov, V. Where there are no
  data what has happened to life expectancy in
  Georgia since 1990? Public Health (Nature),
  Nov2001, Vol. 115 Issue 6, pp. 394-401.