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%, respectively. The value of this indicator by regions is highest in Adjara A.R. and Tbilisi, 96.2 and 94.2%, 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. Fordifferent 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%).
