Georgia 
Facts
Population: 4,646,003 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 16.7% (male 413,506/female 364,407)
15-64 years: 66.6% (male 1,489,081/female 1,605,021)
65 years and over: 16.7% (male 311,098/female 462,890) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: -0.329% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.54 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 9.37 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -4.45 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.14 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.135 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.928 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.672 male(s)/female
total population: 0.91 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 17.36 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 19.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 15.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.3 years
male: 73 years
female: 80.07 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.42 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 3,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 200 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Georgian(s)
adjective: Georgian.
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).
Languages: Georgian 71% (official), Russian 9%, Armenian 7%, Azeri 6%, other 7%
note: Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 100%
male: 100%
female: 100% (2004 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $17.88 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 8% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,800 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 17.7%
industry: 27.5%
services: 54.8% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 2.04 million (2004 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 40%
industry: 20%
services: 40% (1999 est.).
Population below poverty line: 54% (2001 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.3%
highest 10%: 27.9% (1996).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 12.6% (2004 est.).
Budget: revenues: $1.726 billion
expenditures: $1.879 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: citrus, grapes, tea, hazelnuts, vegetables; livestock.
Industries: steel, aircraft, machine tools, electrical appliances, mining (manganese and copper), chemicals, wood products, wine.
Industrial production growth rate: 3% (2000).
Electricity - production: 6.804 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 8.528 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 200 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 2.4 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $1.761 billion (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: scrap metal, machinery, chemicals; fuel reexports; citrus fruits, tea, wine.
Exports - partners: Russia 18.1%, Turkey 14.3%, Azerbaijan 9.8%, Turkmenistan 8.9%, Bulgaria 5%, Armenia 4.7%, Ukraine 4.4%, Canada 4.2% (2005).
Imports: $3.32 billion (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: fuels, machinery and parts, transport equipment, grain and other foods, pharmaceuticals.
Imports - partners: Russia 15.4%, Turkey 11.4%, Azerbaijan 9.4%, Ukraine 8.8%, Germany 8.3%, US 6% (2005).
Debt - external: $2.04 billion (2004).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $150 million (2000 est.).
Currency (code): lari (GEL).
Exchange rates: lari per US dollar - 1.78 (2006), 1.8127 (2005), 1.9167 (2004), 2.1457 (2003), 2.1957 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
Akhali Taoba
(pro-opposition), Tbilisi
(English-language), Tbilisi
http://www.georgiatoday.ge/
(English-language), Tbilisi
http://www.geotimes.ge/
Komsomolskaya Pravda v Gruzii
(mass-circulation weekly), Tbilisi
(Independent, English-language daily), Tbilisi
http://www.messenger.com.ge/
Mtavari Gazeti
(centrist), Tbilisi
Svobodnaya Gruziya
(government-owned), Tbilisi
Georgia in the News
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Sahar al-Baasiry, writing for Beirut's indepenent An-Nahar, wishes Arabs would take a cue from the popular uprising that unseated Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze.
'[Shevardnadze's] exit leaves more disturbing questions than reassuring answers,' writes New Delhi's Hindustan Times.
Daan van der Schriek, reporting from Tbilisi, reviews Georgian press reaction to the controversial elections in Georgia.
It has been ten years since Georgia and Azerbaijan became independent. Chloe Arnold reports on the challenges they face.
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