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.
