Friday, December 5, 2025

Is Georgia’s tourism boom built on misleading numbers?

TBILISI, October 21 – Georgia’s tourism revenue rose 6.5% in the third quarter of 2025, reaching USD 1.67 billion, according to the country’s central bank. But behind the headline figure lies a growing distortion: many of the biggest spenders are no longer tourists at all, BPN reports. The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) reported that … Read more

New figures confirm upward trend of Georgia's population

Figure showing natural growth data for Georgia
The natural growth of Georgia’s population. (GeoStat.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–New figures show that Georgia’s increase in population continued an upward trend in 2014, but the growth rate is still barely above zero.

The number of live births minus the number of deaths, which scientists call the natural increase, was 11,548 in 2014.

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