Structure of service sector of Georgia

In recent years, interest in Georgia has been growing. The country belongs to the Eastern Neighborhood area. Polish and international organizations systematically announce competitions, based on sharing experience and knowledge in the field of institutional and local government administration, education, science, business; most of international aid supports Georgia in the transformation process and helps to adapt the local soft and hard infrastructure to the requirements of the free market. Researchers, universities and business entities often are in need to get up to databases giving a picture of this country and region. The purpose of this text is to present the structure of the current statistical information regularly collected by the Georgia’s statistical office (Geostat) and available in the digitized space. This review paper provides general information about Georgia, including a historical feature with an emphasis on the experience of creating databases. Next, it presents the structure of statistical data collected by the GeoStat.Ge, discussing in detail the services sector. Through the reviewed data structures, it draws attention to several properties, that result from the specificity of the Georgian national economy.