Georgia Data Book

Last update: August 2025

This page contains information about some of the data available in the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE) for Georgia. This is not a comprehensive guide.

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Summary table

Country food security context

Statistical reporting units

Georgia’s internal borders correspond to what existed at the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on.

Admin 1: Regions, the capital city of Tblisi, and two autonomous republics (Adjara and Abkhazia), the latter being outside Georgia's effective control.

Admin 2: Municipalities

Region boundaries have remained stable, without change, since they were defined in 1991. The former Soviet-era autonomous entity of South Ossetia is not currently under Georgia's de facto jurisdiction, and has no final defined constitutional status in Georgia's territorial arrangement.  It occupies parts of four of the regions (the eastern tip of Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, the north-east part of Imereti, the northern half of Shida Kartli, and the western part of Mtskheta-Mtianeti).

Crop data

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Crop estimate data sources

The National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT) is the principal disseminator of crop estimates for Georgia, and the source of all the Georgian crop statistics found in the FDW. 

Crop statistics data for Georgia are available in the following publications: 

• Agriculture of Georgia

• Statistical Yearbook of Georgia

Georgia’s crop statistics can also be found in the PX-Web application.

Year and season definition

The annual cropping cycle in Georgia is generally considered to start with winter plantings in October or later, with harvests being completed by late September.  Both the agricultural year and the crop reporting reference year are generally referred to with a single-year, end-aligned notation (e.g. 2023), in the year in which the harvests occur.

The winter-planted wheat crop is the most important harvest in the year, generally occurring early in the June-September period.  A spring barley crop is also very important, with planting occurring as early as March, and harvests generally being completed by September.  

Crop statistics context

According to GEOSTAT, “The main source of [the] sample frame for 2006-2015 years of [crop] surveys was Agricultural Census 2004. The sample frame for 2016-2018 years of survey has been updated and is based on Agricultural Census 2014. Consequently, in order to ensure comparability of data of 2014-2018 years, reconciliation of the data has been made for the years of 2014 and 2015. Therefore, the data of 2014-2018 years are not comparable to the data of 2006-2013 years.”

In low-production areas of the country GEOSTAT may use different reporting methods in its source reporting.  In these areas, the reliability of data for some regions may not be judged to meet standards of GEOSTAT, and the estimates are therefore grouped in one of two ways:

• If this grouping of regions includes all the remaining regions, the table refers to remaining regions.

• If the grouping does not include all the remaining regions (the event did not take place in all regions), then the table indicates other regions, and a corresponding footnote lists the regions of the group.

The units of measure used for original source reporting of crop statistics in Georgia are thousands of hectares and tonnes.  In the FDW, these are represented as hectares and tonnes.

Methodology

The main source of statistical data about annual and permanent crops is Survey of Agricultural Holdings. Final results of the survey provide information on crops by country and regional level, including sown and harvested area of annual crops, production and average yield of annual crops, as well as production of permanent crops. Data about melons production are obtained through the interviewing of the Mayors’ representative in administrative units. Information about production of tea leaves is obtained from the annual surveying Tea Leaf Processing Enterprises

GEOSTAT provides the following references for the methodology of crop statistics used in the country:  

“A System of Integrated Agricultural Censuses and Surveys. V.1-Guidelines for the World Programme of Agriculture Censuses“. FAO Statistical Development Series, No. 11. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome, 2005. https://www.geostat.ge/media/19768/WCA2010.pdf 

“World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020. V.1-Programme, concepts and definitions“. FAO Statistical Development Series, No. 15. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome, 2017. https://www.geostat.ge/media/19769/World-Programme-for-the-Census-of-Agriculture-2020.pdf