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Rural
13.4
16.8
18.4
21.4
21.3
20.7
US $ 2.15 per capita/day at PPP c/
9.7
11.8
14.5
15.4
14.8
13.5
US $ 1.075 per capita/day at PPP c/
1.7
3.0
3.2
3.3
3.4
2.7
Source : SDS SGHH primary data and World Bank, see Georgia Poverty Update , Report No. 22350-GE. Note : The official poverty line uses a normative basket and CPI price data to cost it and is around 100 GEL (about US $ 50 at current exchange rate) per equivalent adult per month. The recommended poverty line was developed jointly by the World Bank and SDS in 1998; it uses actual consumption patterns of the population and survey prices (its non-food component is fixed in real terms to 1996 and deflated using the CPI for non-food items); it is about 55 GEL (US $ 25) per month per equivalent adult. The equivalence scale used in the official and recommended methodology is the scale developed by SDS and used in Georgia to determine the social assistance payments. International poverty lines expressed in dollar terms (US $ in PPP) are per capita and use the latest (1996) revision of the World Bank, updated with the Georgia CPI. All figures are averages of quarterly data. a/Preliminary estimate; corrections for changes in the Survey not made. b/Bank estimates using official methodology. c/Using 0.33 as PPP conversion factor.
Differential Impact of Rising Poverty . IDA, in close collaboration with the State Department of Statistics, prepared a Poverty Update covering the 1998-2000 period. The study found that the increase in poverty affected various socioeconomic groups differently, with growing differentiation among the poor, and signs that the poorest became even poorer. Poverty depth and severity increased in the observed period by 84 and 94 percent respectively. Driven by the volatile economic environment and absence of an adequate safety net, vulnerability to poverty for the average household rose significantly, with female-headed households being the most vulnerable. Although the extent of absolute poverty at any point in time remained around 20-24 percent, 40 percent of the population experienc...
