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Georgia's Economy – Basic Facts
Area: 69,700 sq km
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Population: 4.4 million (as of January 1, 2009)
Life expectancy: 76.5 years
Official language: Georgian
Literacy: 100%
Capital: Tbilisi
Currency (code): Lari (GEL)
GDP (2009A): US$10.7 billion
GDP real growth rate 2009A: - 3.9%
GDP real growth rate 2010F: 4.5%
White
Stream
(proposed)
Russia
Georgia
Supsa
Nabucco gas pipeline
to Central Europe
(planned)
GDP per capita 2009A (market): US$ 2,450
GDP per capita 2009E (PPP): US$ 4,747
Current account deficit 2009: US$ 1.3bn, 11.9% of GDP
Current account deficit 2010F : US$ 1.5bn, 13.6% of GDP
Budget Deficit 2009E: 9.3% of GDP
Cehyan
Budget Deficit 2010F: 6.3 % of GDP
Inflation rate 2010F: 6.0%
External public debt / GDP 2009A: 31.8%
Sovereign ratings:
Fitch B+/Stable
S&P B+/Stable/B+
Lobko
BANK OF GEORGIA
www.bog.ge/ir
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
oil pipeline
Baku-Supsa
oil pipeline
Caspian
Sea
Kazakhstan
Trans-Caspian
gas pipeline
(proposed)
Azerbaijan Sangachal Türkmenbasy
Terminal
Armenia
Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum
Erzurum gas pipeline
Iran
Turkey
Iraq
Syria
Turkmenistan
September 2010
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