BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 12. Manufacturing
and construction accounted for a higher share of production value
than their respective shares of the workforce in Georgia's business
sector in the second quarter of 2026.
This was reported in data published by the National Statistics
Office of Georgia (Geostat).
According to Geostat, manufacturing employed 11.3% of the
business sector's workforce in the second quarter and accounted for
20.5% of total production value, while construction employed 7.6%
of workers and generated 14.4% of production value. Trade employed
29.5% of the workforce and accounted for 18.0% of output, while
transportation and storage employed 8.1% and generated 9.8% of
output.
Trend's
calculations, dividing each sector's production-value share by its
employment share, show manufacturing's ratio at 1.8 and
construction's at 1.9 — the highest among the sectors reported —
compared with 0.61 for trade and 1.21 for transportation and
storage. The ratios indicate that the shares of production value
generated by manufacturing and construction were substantially
higher than their respective shares of employment, while trade's
production-value share was lower than its employment share.
"Information and communication also recorded a production-value
share above its employment share, employing 6.4% of the workforce
while accounting for 8.9% of production value, with a ratio of
1.39," Trend's
calculations show.
For reference, total business sector production value in the
second quarter of 2026 stood at 25.7 billion lari ($9.8 billion),
according to Geostat. The comparison uses production value rather
than turnover as a proxy for economic contribution, as turnover
figures can be influenced by resale activity and gambling-related
transactions. Currency conversions are based on the National Bank
of Georgia's exchange rate of 1 lari to $0.3813 as of early August
2026.
