In the II quarter of 2025, compared to the same quarter of the previous year, the volume of business sector turnover increased by 12.5 percent and amounted to 60.3 billion GEL, reads the report of GeoStat.

The increase was observed in the production value of the business sector as well. In the II quarter of 2025, production value equaled 23.2 billion GEL, which is 13.0 percent more year-on-year.

In the II quarter of 2025, large businesses generated 68.1 percent of total turnover, while medium size businesses generated 14.9 percent, and 17.0 percent was generated by small business.

A distribution was different in case of total production value: 46.8 percent was on large businesses, 24.1 percent — on medium, and 29.1 percent — on small businesses.
In the II quarter of 2025, total purchases of goods and services carried out by enterprises equaled 31.0 billion GEL (year-on-year 9.3 percent more), while the purchase of goods and services for resale amounted to 17.8 billion GEL (year-on-year 4.6 percent more).

In the II quarter of 2025, the average number of persons employed in business sector equaled 795.6 thousand, which is year-on-year 3.3 percent more. Out of the total number of persons employed, 44.1 percent were female and 55.9 percent were male.

Large businesses employed 42.9 percent of total number of persons, while 20.4 percent were employed by medium, and 36.7 percent — by small businesses. The total number of employees amounted to 745.3 thousand (year-on-year 2.9 percent more) and the total personnel costs of enterprises equaled 5 284.0 million GEL (year-on-year 13.5 percent more).

In the II quarter of 2025, average monthly remuneration of employed persons equaled 2 317.6 GEL (212.2 GEL increase year-on-year) while remuneration specifically for employed women was 1 783.5 GEL (147.2 GEL increase year-on-year). Average monthly remuneration of employed persons by size of enterprises is as follows:

⦁ Large business — 2 466.9 GEL;
⦁ Medium size business — 2 741.8 GEL;
⦁ Small business — 1 823.3 GEL.

In the II quarter of 2025, the arts, entertainment and recreation had the highest share (35.1 percent) in the total turnover in business sector, followed by trade sector (including repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles) with 33.0 percent share, manufacturing – with 8.0 percent, construction – with 5.8 percent, transportation and storage – with 4.5 percent, Information and communication – with 3.7 percent, and other sectors – with 10.0 percent share.