Subsistence minimum for a working-age male was up by 3,8 GEL and amounted to 201 GEL, which is 5.1 GEL down compared to the same period of the previous year, - Geostat reports.
According to Geostat, subsistence minimum of an average consumer is down by 4.5 GEL in the last year. It made up 178.1 GEL in March 2021, which was 182.6 GEL in the same period of the last year.
Geostat has been calculating subsistence minimum since 2004 and it is calculated according to the “Norms of determining the composition of minimum food basket for subsistence minimum regarding food substance and energy for physiology demand”.
