
“The number of live births equaled 42 319 in 2022 (21 897 boys and 20 422 girls), registering a 7.9% decrease from the previous year,” - the National Statistics Service (GeoStat) reported.
Compared to 2021, in 2022 the share of first-order births in total live births increased from 37.4 % to 39.1 %. The share of the second child decreased from 35.6 % to 33.5 %, while the share of the third and next-order births remained almost unchanged and equaled 26.6 %.
Compared to 2021, in 2022 the share of live births increased for women aged 25-39 from 69.2 % to 69.6 % and for women aged 40 years and older (from 3.6 % to 4.0 %) while decreasing for women aged less than 25 (from 27.2 % to 26.5 %).
According to the Geostat, In 2022, the number of deaths decreased by 18.0 % in annual terms and totaled 49 118 %.
According to the 2022 data, the infant mortality rate (per 1 000 live births) equaled 7.6 %. The under-5 mortality rate (per 1 000 live births) in 2022 totaled 9.2%. The negative natural increase was stated in Georgia (the difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths) equaling -6 799 in 2022.
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