According to the “Survey on Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households” results of 2023, 89.0 percent of Georgian households have internet access, which is 0.6 percentage points higher compared to the previous year. The share of households with internet access increased by 0.3 percentage points for urban and by 1.0 percentage points for rural areas and amounted to 93.1 and 83.4 percent, respectively. The value of this indicator by regions is highest in Adjara A.R. and Tbilisi, 96.2 and 94.2 percent, respectively.
According to the survey results, 82.7 percent of the population aged 6 years and older has used the internet within the last 3 months, which is 2.8 percentage points higher compared to the same indicator of the previous year. The percentage of this indicator equals to 87.7 percent in urban and 74.7 percent in rural areas. This indicator is 83.0 percent for women and 82.3 percent for men. For different age groups, the indicator is highest among the “15-29” and equals to 98.1 percent.
93.0 percent of the population aged 15 years and older who used internet within the last 3 months, use internet every day or almost every day, 6.4 percent - at least once a week (but not every day), and 0.6 percent more rarely.
According to the survey results, among the population aged 15 years and older, who used internet within the last 3 months, the main reasons for using internet are: participating in social networks (95.6%), telephoning over the internet/video calls over the internet (94.3%), seeking health-related information (50.5%), reading online news/newspapers/magazines (49.1%), internet banking (47.1%), finding information about goods and services (45.2%), sending/receiving e-mails (41.6%), downloading software or applications (other than games software) (16.1%) and looking for a job or sending/submitting a job application (13.3%).
30.0 percent of population aged 15 years and older, who used internet within the last 12 months, have purchased or ordered goods or services. This figure varies by type of settlement: in urban areas – 35.1 percent and in rural areas – 20.7 percent. The values by gender are 32.8 percent for women, 26.7 percent for men. The values differ among age groups: 40.9 percent in “15-29”, 30.9 percent in “30-59” and 13.0 percent in “60 years and older”.
99.1 percent of internet users aged 15 years and older, who used internet within the last 3 months, have used a mobile device (mobile phone, laptop, tablet, etc.) to connect to the wireless Internet. This indicator is 99.2 percent for women and 98.9 percent - for men. Among the age groups, the highest value is observed for the population “15-29” (99.7%).
According to the survey results, 57.7 percent of households have a computer. The value of this indicator was 66.3 percent in urban areas and 46.0 percent in rural areas. Among the regions, the highest value was observed in Adjara A.R. and Tbilisi, 68.9 percent and 67.4 percent, respectively.
52.3 percent of the population aged 6 years and older have used a computer in the last 3 months. The values of indicator differ by type of settlement: 60.6 percent in urban and 39.2 percent in rural areas. This indicator is 51.7 percent for women and 53.0 percent for men. Among the age groups, the highest share of computer users is in the population of “6-14” and equals to 84.1 percent.
73.7 percent of the population aged 15 years and older, who used computer within the last 3 months, use computer every day or almost every day, 16.5 percent - at least once a week and 9.8 percent more rarely.
According to the survey results, 89.8 percent of the population aged 6 years and older owns a mobile phone, which is 1.7 percentage points higher than the previous year. This indicator increased by 0.7 percentage points in urban and by 3.2 percentage points in rural areas and amounted to 92.7 percent and 85.2 percent, respectively.
