Georgia

EuropeCapital city: TbilisiCapital metro: TbilisiPrime Minister: Irakli KobakhidzePresident: Mikheil Kavelashvili
2026 population
4.2M
Includes Abkhazia + South Ossetia
Area
82k km² (32k sq mi)
Metros tracked
20
64% of population in metros
Composite score
11.9
Rank #92 globally

population: Official estimate (1 Jan 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 20 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography20 metros

Georgia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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20 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 20 tracked metros
20 metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions

13 entries listed under Georgia across 4 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

13 total

Breakaway Republics (2)

Autonomous Republics (1)

Region-Level Cities (1)

🧩 Constituents and territories

2 entries listed under Georgia. Click any to see its own metros.

📋 At a glance
Official language
Georgian
Government
Parliamentary republic
Legislature
Parliament of Georgia
Demonym
Georgian
Time zone
UTC+04:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+995
Internet TLD
.ge
ISO 3166
GE
Established
1991
Highest point
Shkhara (5,193 m (17,037 ft))
National anthem
Tavisupleba

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#56 / 191
0.844
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#105 / 193
$38.1B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#84 / 193
$9.7k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#68 / 190
$29.4k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#87 / 192
$9.0k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#91 / 194
74.7 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
36.8 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#105 / 194
61%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
3.2%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#121 / 193
65/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#131 / 193
2.1%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#91 / 175
0.54
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#73 / 166
33.9
World Bank · 2024
Internet users
#85 / 193
84%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#117 / 185
3.9%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#102 / 192
3.1 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#34 / 186
80%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations1 full membership

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History13 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Independent Georgia

Mikheil Kavelashvili✦ Current

2024Present

President

Tenure: 2024–present (disputed)People's Power (Georgian Dream-backed)

Irakli Kobakhidze✦ Current

2024Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2024–presentGeorgian Dream

Irakli Garibashvili

20212024

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2021–2024 (second term)Georgian Dream

Giorgi Gakharia

20192021

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2019–2021Georgian Dream

Salome Zourabichvili

20182024

President

Tenure: 2018–2024Independent (Georgian Dream-backed)

Mamuka Bakhtadze

20182019

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2018–2019Georgian Dream

Giorgi Kvirikashvili

20152018

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2015–2018Georgian Dream

Irakli Garibashvili

20132015

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2013–2015 (first term)Georgian Dream

Giorgi Margvelashvili

20132018

President

Tenure: 2013–2018Independent (Georgian Dream-backed)

Bidzina Ivanishvili

20122013

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2012–2013Georgian Dream

Mikheil Saakashvili

20042013

President

Tenure: 2004–2013United National Movement

Eduard Shevardnadze

19952003

President

Tenure: 1995–2003 (head of state from 1992)Union of Citizens of Georgia
Show all 13 leaders

Zviad Gamsakhurdia

19911992

President

Tenure: 1991–1992Round Table—Free Georgia
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#87 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Georgia · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19455 interstate wars · click to expand

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
3.8m
#131 in the world
Since 1800
3.55×
from 1.1m
Past its peak
−30.8%
peaked at 5.5m in 1988
Share of world
0.05%
0.11% in 1800
1.4m2.8m4.1m5.5m18001850190019502000
Georgia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Georgia is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Georgia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
1988
5.5m; already passed
2050
3.7m
95% band 2.3m to 5.7m
2100
3.0m
95% band 572k to 15.6m
2100 against 2025
0.78×
median falling from 2025
Deaths outnumber births
since 2021
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
4.1m8.2m12.3m16.4m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
84k born · 52k died · +10k net migration
TFR 2.98 · life expectancy 57.7 · median age 24.8
1960
108k born · 51k died · +17k net migration
TFR 2.94 · life expectancy 61.3 · median age 26.6
1970
95k born · 50k died · -1k net migration
TFR 2.69 · life expectancy 64.9 · median age 27.9
1980
101k born · 50k died · -13k net migration
TFR 2.35 · life expectancy 68.3 · median age 28.0
1990
102k born · 57k died · -109k net migration
TFR 2.31 · life expectancy 68.7 · median age 29.6
2000
54k born · 49k died · -135k net migration
TFR 1.61 · life expectancy 70.1 · median age 32.9
2010
61k born · 50k died · -37k net migration
TFR 1.97 · life expectancy 71.7 · median age 35.1
2020
50k born · 49k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.98 · life expectancy 73.5 · median age 36.5
Show all 16 decades
2030
40k born · 45k died · +685 net migration
TFR 1.75 · life expectancy 75.6 · median age 38.7
2040
42k born · 46k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.72 · life expectancy 77.2 · median age 40.1
2050
40k born · 46k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.71 · life expectancy 78.8 · median age 40.4
2060
33k born · 45k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.70 · life expectancy 80.3 · median age 43.1
2070
32k born · 45k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 81.7 · median age 45.3
2080
31k born · 44k died · -622 net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 83.0 · median age 45.6
2090
27k born · 41k died · -648 net migration
TFR 1.68 · life expectancy 84.2 · median age 46.5
2100
25k born · 41k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.67 · life expectancy 85.5 · median age 48.2

Every country to 2100 →

Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

💰 Billionaires2 · $8.7B combined · click to expand
Finance & InvestmentsFintech
Finance & InvestmentsInvestments

Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.

🏆 National Teams

Georgia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.