LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

This indicator measures the total number of employed citizens in Tbilisi in the last four
years. It breaks down data by type of activity in order to describe the active labor market.
This data present key employment sectors in the past and show where the new jobs
emerged during four years as well as those sectors which are in urgent need of
improvement.
2000 2002 2003 2004 2005
Agriculture hunting & forestry 0.7 3.0 2.6 6.8 3.1
Mining 1.4 0.5 0.1 0.6 0.5
Manufacturing 24.9 28.4 29.8 33.9 39.0
Electricity, gas & water supply 7.6 7.9 5.9 7.6 7.9
Construction 10.4 12.8 17.0 15.4 11.6
Wholesale & retail trade, repair of motor
vehicles & personal & household goods 44.5 78.2 73.3 71.1 64.4
Hotels and restaurants 5.8 5.7 6.4 7.7 6.6
Transport, storage & communication 19.5 24.6 25.8 21.2 21.9
Financial intermediation 0.2 3.4 4.1 5.2 6.1
Real estate renting & business activities 11.2 10.7 19.9 16.7 15.2
Public administration & defense, social
security 43.2 37.9 32.5 29.1
Education, healthcare & social work 37.3 64.3 63.7 67.6 69.1
Other community, social and personal
services activities 6.7 31.3 23.3 19.9 19.7
Household economy with hired employment 5.1 5.3 6.5 8.4
Exterritorial organizations & bodies 0.3 1.9 2.9 2.5
Non identified
Total 170.2 319.5 317.0 315.6 305.1
The total number of employed decreased from 319.5 thousand to 305.1 thousand in four
years. Most of them fill in education, health and social jobs in 2005.
The highest increase in employment can be observed in manufacturing and trade,
although in 2005 the number of workers in this segment fell, which was the effect of
technological and organisational changes. Also, more workers were employed in
segments dealing with services such as education, health & social work as well as social
and personal services.
It is worth pointing out that organizational changes in public administration and
technological innovations in commercial sectors will result in further redundancies in the
following years.