Migration from Georgia

According to official information, 3,219,625 Georgian citizens left the country in 2013 and 3,207,297 returned. It means that 12,355 people stayed abroad. However, in 2012, 21,656 people from Georgia did not return to the homeland.

According to unofficial data, it suggest that more than 1 million Georgians are out of the country, which is around quarter of the entire population. Most Georgians who leave the homeland go abroad in search of better standards of life.

Many of them start working there illegally. They work as nurses, servants, workers, or at farms in the agricultural sectors. Very few of those people who have university education, work in their profession.

Most Georgians reside in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, other European countries and the US.