Geostat : 19.5% of the Georgian population is below the absolute poverty line

19.5% of the Georgian population is below the absolute poverty line, according to the 2019 data of the National Statistics Office.

Geostat said that the share of the population under absolute poverty line is 23.7% in rural Georgia and 16.4% - in urban areas.

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

Michał Kobosko - we hope that your government eventually would either choose the European way, the democratic way or would resign seeing the number, the size and scale of the citizens' protests